Research project

The population's mental health is declining, and unfortunately, this has long been the case. Hence international organizations, such as the WHO, recommend that mental health promoting and preventive initiatives are implemented in workplace contexts. In their latest report on mental health at work, WHO mentions mindfulness-based interventions as examples of interventions to promote the well-being and stress management skills of employees. This project examined the feasibility of implementing a mindfulness-based intervention, an adapted version of MBSR (mindfulness-based stress reduction), in the context of Danish workplaces, and how this may affect both the mental health and workplace relations.

Results

The results shows that it is feasible to implement such interventions at Danish workplaces, and that it may affect the mental health and mental health skills positively. Also, the results show that if mindfulness is mindfulness at an organizational level at a workplace it can affect the psychosocial work environment positively.

• Impacting employees’ and managers’ mental health skills using a workplace-adapted mindfulness-based intervention (2022) published in Frontiers in Psychology. 
• The impact of an organizational-level mindfulness-based intervention on workplace social capital and psychological safety: A qualitative content analysis (2023) published in Frontiers in Psychology

Ph.d. dissertation

• "Population-based approaches to mental health promotion and prevention: Investigating a mindfulness-based intervention at workplace contexts" (2023). PhD by Emilie Hasager Bonde