Test@Work Study: Evaluation of Attitudes and Uptake Within Employee Health Checks in the Construction Industry

HIV Clinical Trial

— Test@Work  

Official title:

Test@Work: Evaluation of Attitudes and Uptake Within Employee Health Checks in the Construction Industry

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04292002
• Other study ID #: IN-UK-276-5347 HIV DVE
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 17, 2019
• Est. completion date: May 31, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: September 2021
• Source: University of Nottingham
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This project is called Test@Work. In this project the investigators will offer general health checks and tailored health advice to up to 650 employees in the construction industry at sites across the East Midlands. The investigators will assess reach and uptake, and evaluate the views and perceptions of employees, managers and the delivery team. Health checks will include Body Mass Index (BMI; weight/height), waist-to-hip ratio, blood pressure, mental health screen, sexual health consultation and an opt-in rapid screening test for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Employees will be provided with a resource pack with information and signposting around physical activity, diabetes risk, diet, and musculoskeletal health. A digital resource providing information and signposting about workplace health screening and HIV testing will be developed and provided to managers at the participating worksites 2 weeks before their health check event.

Employees will be offered an additional text messaging service involving receipt of a series of messages with advice around HIV and testing alongside general health information. Employees will complete post-health check exit questionnaires and an exit interview. Managers will complete a post-event evaluation questionnaire and post-event interview. Mixed-methods evaluation will include assessment of reach, uptake, and intervention implementation processes.

Description:

The investigators will collect evaluation data with employees and company representatives.

Employees: will complete exit-questionnaires and be invited to a brief exit interview.

The investigators will collect by anonymous questionnaire: age, gender, country of birth, ethnicity, postcode, sexual orientation, employment status (FT/PT, permanent, agency, contract worker), reasons for attending, health perceptions, prior HIV testing history, influence of work on health, perceptions of employers provision for health and wellbeing, perceptions towards HIV testing in the workplace, range of tests undertaken, views about the workplace health check and future health intentions. Personal identifiers will not be collected and questionnaire data will not be provided to employers. Those employees who agree to be interviewed after the health check will be invited to a brief independent confidential interview with the project researcher.

Company representatives: will complete brief post-event questionnaire and be invited to post-event interview

The investigators will ask about the organisational/employee profile, their perceptions of company provision for health and wellbeing, perceptions towards the usefulness of the implementation toolkit and towards HIV testing in the workplace, method of delivery and their confidence to support employees who disclose a positive test outcome, views about the workplace health check and future implementation intentions.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 456
• Est. completion date: May 31, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: November 30, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• employee of a company in construction or related industries

• provides informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• does not speak English

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• HIV

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Test@Work
Offer of a general health check including opt-in sexual health consultation and HIV testing, weight/height, Body Mass Index (BMI), blood pressure, mental health screen. Provision of tailored health advice and a resource pack with information and signposting.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United Kingdom	University of Nottingham	Nottingham

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Nottingham

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United Kingdom, 

References & Publications (4)

Blake H, Somerset S, Evans C. Development and Fidelity Testing of the Test@Work Digital Toolkit for Employers on Workplace Health Checks and Opt-In HIV Testing. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Jan 6;17(1). pii: E379. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17010379. — View Citation

Blake H, Somerset S, Whittingham K, Middleton M, Yildirim M, Evans C. WHIRL Study: Workplace Health Interprofessional Learning in the Construction Industry. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Sep 18;17(18). pii: E6815. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17186815. — View Citation

Middleton M, Somerset S, Evans C, Blake H. Test@Work Texts: Mobile Phone Messaging to Increase Awareness of HIV and HIV Testing in UK Construction Employees during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Oct 26;17(21). pii: E7819. doi — View Citation

Somerset S, Evans C, Blake H. Accessing Voluntary HIV Testing in the Construction Industry: A Qualitative Analysis of Employee Interviews from the Test@Work Study. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Apr 15;18(8). pii: 4184. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18084184. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Health check uptake	Percentage of employees choosing to take a workplace health check from total employee population across all sites	Rolling intervention delivery and data collection over 15 months
Secondary	reasons for attending	Qualitative data collected on reasons for opting in to health check	immediately post-event
Secondary	perceptions of employer's provision for health and wellbeing	Qualitative data collected on perceptions towards employer	immediately post-event
Secondary	perceptions towards HIV testing in the workplace	Qualitative data collected on employee views towards HIV testing at work	immediately post-event
Secondary	range of tests undertaken	which of the optional checks/tests were taken by the employee	during the health check, and qualitative data immediately post-event
Secondary	Employee demographic profile	Age, Gender, country of birth, ethnicity, postcode, sexual orientation, employment status (full-time or part-time, permanent, agency, contract worker)	At recruitment

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