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Leveraging behavioral science and artificial intelligence to support mental health in the workplace: a pilot study

Originally published 2023-10-19 · Frontiers in Psychiatry
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1219229 ↗

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AI / system type

Behavioral reinforcement-learning agent assembling employee-assistance outreach

Workplace evidence

Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.

The AI connection

System or context examined: Behavioral reinforcement-learning agent assembling employee-assistance outreach. The source-specific system and study design determine what can be inferred.

Why this reading matters

The reading brings AI-supported outreach to employee mental-health resources into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers workplace email-campaign pilot study evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.

Workplace evidence

Work, care and the whole person.

The workplace lens is AI-supported outreach to employee mental-health resources. Source setting or population: 773 employees of a large home builder in the southeastern United States. Parenting and child-development outcomes are not inferred from the workplace evidence.

Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.

Editorial reading guide · Kindness

Can technology make it easier to ask for support without making people feel monitored?

This workplace email-campaign pilot study examines AI-supported outreach to employee mental-health resources. Its TRICK home is Kindness, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.

Study context

773 employees of a large home builder in the southeastern United States

Age / stage: Adult workplace context; no child age range inferred

Read with three questions

  1. Can technology make it easier to ask for support without making people feel monitored?
  2. What do this study’s design and population — 773 employees of a large home builder in the southeastern United States — allow you to infer about another workplace?
  3. When considering AI-supported outreach to employee mental-health resources, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?

Keep the limits in view

Email engagement and portal logins are not evidence of symptom improvement; a pilot in one employer does not establish general effectiveness.

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Ashley B West; Yuzhen Valerie Guo; Amy Bucher (2023). Leveraging behavioral science and artificial intelligence to support mental health in the workplace: a pilot study Frontiers in Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1219229

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