Scoping Review of Workplace Mental Health and Well-being Programs in Higher Education Institutions
Shari Fallek Coats1, Enid Chung Roemer, Karen B Kent
1From the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (S.F.C., M.F.D.); Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (E.C.R., K.B.K., Y.Z., R.Z.G.); Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland (M.F.D.); and Johns Hopkins P.O.E. Total Worker Health® Center in Mental Health, Baltimore, Maryland (E.C.R., K.B.K., Y.Z., M.F.D., R.Z.G.).
Objective:
The study aimed to conduct a scoping review of stressors in higher education institutions (HEIs), exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and to identify successful interventions.
Methods:
We reviewed 79 studies published between January 2020 and January 2023.
Results:
Stressors were organized into psychosocial, organizational, and environmental categories. They included high job demand/low control, work/personal life imbalance, pressure to publish, lack of resources, low perceived organizational support, and fear of infection. Interventions included providing back-up childcare, employee assistance programs, financial well-being resources, paid medical leave, flexible work arrangements, greater transparency in decision making, leadership development, and adaptive physical space design.
Conclusions:
Mental health and well-being interventions directed at faculty and staff in HEIs are needed given the many stressors faced by this workforce. Several interventions are highlighted in the literature, but most are speculative regarding their impact, given the limited number of outcome studies.
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