Impact of occupational health coaching on irrational career beliefs and workplace deviant behaviors among school employees: Implications for Educational administrative policy

Intervention for work-family conflict and work deviance behavior among female workers in Tourism, Museum, Art Gallery Exhibition Centers: Implications for sustainable Tourism development intervention study

BACKGROUND

This study was motivated due to psychological exhaustion, demands, and conflict degenerating from the work environment and family responsibilities facing career female workers. These roles and expectations have posed serious dilemmas to female populations in workplaces. Leaving them untreated is risky and could lead to severe psychological disturbances. Based on these, this study investigated the effect of the occupation health model of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy on work-family conflict and work-deviant behavior among female workers in Tourism, Museum, Art Gallery and Exhibition Centers in Enugu State.

METHODS

A randomized control design was used. A total of 119 female workers were randomized into intervention and control groups, measured at 3 points (pretest, posttest, and follow-up test), and the data collected were analyzed using repeated measure statistics.

RESULTS

The finding showed that the intervention is significantly effective in reducing the work-family conflict and work deviance behavior among female workers in Tourism, Museum, and Art Gallery Exhibition Centers. Nonetheless, the findings show that the gender and time interaction effects did not significantly affect the work-family conflict and work deviance behavior scores of the workers. The follow-up stage improved the intervention's favorable impact on the reduction of work-family conflict and work-deviant behaviors.

CONCLUSION

This suggest that occupation health model of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy has significant impact in reducing and changing female workers' perceptions of work-family conflict and work deviant behaviors.

Functional medicine health coaching improved elimination diet compliance and patient-reported health outcomes: Results from a randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND

The objective of this study was to determine whether an elimination diet with virtually provided functional medicine health coaching support would be more effective than a typical self-guided elimination diet with respect to dietary compliance and patient-reported health and quality of life.

METHODS

A parallel arm, randomized controlled trial was conducted among a sample of healthcare professionals. Participants were randomized to either an elimination diet with 5 sessions of functional medicine health coaching support (intervention arm) or a self-guided elimination diet (control arm). Outcomes assessed at baseline and at the conclusion of the 10-week study included PROMIS Global Health (GH) and medical symptoms questionnaire (MSQ). Compliance with the elimination diet was assessed at the conclusion of the study. Baseline and end of study outcomes were compared within study arms via paired t tests and between study arms with unpaired t tests. Subgroup analysis of symptomatology at baseline was performed.

RESULTS

125 randomized participants (n = 64 intervention, n = 61 control) provided baseline outcomes data. There were statistically and clinically significant within-group improvements in patient-reported outcomes in both the intervention arm (PROMIS GH-physical = 4.68, PROMIS GH-mental = 3.53, MSQ = 28.9) and control arm (PROMIS GH-physical = 48.4, PROMIS GH-mental = 3.18, MSQ = 24.1). There were no between-group differences in the primary analysis (P > .1). However, participants with more symptoms at baseline had statistically and clinically significant between-group differences in PROMIS GH-mental health (3.90, P = .0038) and MSQ (12.3, P = .047) scores that favored the functional medicine health coaching arm.

CONCLUSIONS

An elimination diet, whether self-guided or with functional medicine health coaching support, may improve patient-reported health outcomes among relatively healthy healthcare professionals. While studies in more diverse samples are needed, functional medicine health coaching support appears to be superior to a self-guided approach with regard to both dietary compliance and improving health outcomes among those with greater symptomatology.

Perceptions of organizational value and unethical/deviant behaviors among lecturers in Archeology and Religion and Cultural Studies: An intervention study

BACKGROUND

Understanding an organization's ethical standards assists employees in abiding by stipulated rules and regulations and reduces the prevalent rate of inappropriate behaviors. Unfortunately, some workers do not know and as a result, they become dysfunctional, affecting their professional identities. Given this, scholars have called for psychoeducational strategies that coach workers to improve their perceptions. With this in mind, we investigated the impact of psychoeducational coaching on workplace ethical perceptions and deviant behaviors among lecturers in Archeology and Religion and Cultural Studies.

METHODS

A group randomized control design was adopted, and a sample of lecturers was assigned to intervention and control groups using a simple allocation sequence method. Three dependent measures were used to assess the participants' irrational beliefs, work values, and deviant behaviors before the intervention, after, and 2 months later as a follow-up test. Data collected were cued into SPSS version 28. A multivariate analysis was performed to test postulated hypotheses at .05 probability level.

RESULTS

The results showed that rational-emotive behavior occupational coaching has a significant impact on reducing unethical work values and work-deviant behaviors among lecturers in Archeology and Religion and Cultural Studies. The finding of this study justified the effectiveness of rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT) approaches in treating irrational beliefs that occasioned work-deviant behaviors among the employees.

CONCLUSION

It is concluded in this study that rational-emotive behavior occupational coaching is beneficial and effective in decreasing unethical work values and work-deviant behaviors among lecturers in Archeology and Religion and Cultural Studies. Therefore, REBT practitioners should liaise with lecturers in Archeology and Religion and Cultural Studies to advance the practice of REBT in workplaces.