Impact of Employee Health Promotion Course on Health Promotion in the Work Place.

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Clinical Trial

Official title:

Impact of Health Promotion Course for Female Employees on Health Promotion in the Work Place.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03295136
• Other study ID #: WRK-HMO-CTIL
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: September 2024

Study information

• Verified date: April 2023
• Source: Hadassah Medical Organization
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

People of working age spend most of their day at work, and usually have less time to participate in other activities, the work day in Israel being one of the longest in the OECD. Work places, therefore, present the most suitable setting for health interventions, as they are an accessible and available framework and have real potential of creating change.

The current Health Promotion in the Work Place training course aims to train female employees to design, implement, and evaluate a health promotion program in their workplace, as well as promote personal change in improving healthy habits, and empowering the participants. A unique course has been designed, consisting of 20 sessions- 15 consecutive sessions, and 5 maintenance sessions throughout the year. The course will focus on acquiring health knowledge and health promotion skills, as well as leadership skills and empowerment.

Description:

Poor health of employees can cause absences, lack of continuous service, decreased output or productions, fatigue or lack of concentration, and eventually financial damage to the employer. Research shows that health promotion programs in the work place improve employee's physical and emotional health, as well as their sense of commitment, belonging, and responsibility.

People of working age spend most of their day at work, and usually have less time to participate in other activities, the work day in Israel being one of the longest in the OECD. Work places, therefore, present the most suitable setting for health interventions, as they are an accessible and available framework and have real potential of creating change.

The current Health Promotion in the Work Place training course aims to train female employees to design, implement, and evaluate a health promotion program in their workplace, as well as promote personal change in improving healthy habits, and empowering the participants. Objectives include improving eating habits, increasing engagement in physical activity, increasing self-efficacy, and designing a detailed health promotion program in the work place, based on it's needs, and implementing it there.

In order to accomplish these objectives, a unique course has been designed, consisting of 20 sessions- 15 consecutive sessions, and 5 maintenance sessions throughout the year. The course will focus on acquiring health knowledge and health promotion skills, as well as leadership skills and empowerment. The participants will learn how to build programs, market them to their coworkers and employers, budget them, recruit partners, create a Gantt charts, implement and evaluate. The maintenance sessions will take place in different work places, so that the participants can showcase their projects.

Data will be collected at baseline and 2 post interventions follow up points (after 15 weeks and after one year).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 45
• Est. completion date: September 2024
• Est. primary completion date: September 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Female employees from governmental offices and private organizations, willingness to commit to participation in the health promotion training course and lead a health promotion project in their place of work, willingness to make make personal change.

Exclusion Criteria:

• None.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Empowerment
• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Lifestyle Risk Reduction

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Health Promotion Training for Women Employees
Group intervention over a one year, acquiring health promotion tools and skills, as well as leadership and project designing and implementation skills.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Israel	Hadassah Medical Organization, Jerusalem, Isreal	Jerusalem

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hadassah Medical Organization

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Israel, 

References & Publications (3)

Baxter S, Sanderson K, Venn AJ, Blizzard CL, Palmer AJ. The relationship between return on investment and quality of study methodology in workplace health promotion programs. Am J Health Promot. 2014 Jul-Aug;28(6):347-63. doi: 10.4278/ajhp.130731-LIT-395. — View Citation

Leigh JP. Economic burden of occupational injury and illness in the United States. Milbank Q. 2011 Dec;89(4):728-72. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0009.2011.00648.x. — View Citation

VanWormer JJ, Boucher JL, Sidebottom AC. Two-year impact of lifestyle changes on workplace productivity loss in the Heart of New Ulm Project. Occup Environ Med. 2015 Jun;72(6):460-2. doi: 10.1136/oemed-2014-102620. Epub 2015 Apr 9. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in Nutrition Habits	Participants complete self report survey indicating their eating habits, including consumption of sweets, sweet beverages, fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and legumes.	At baseline, 15 weeks after intervention initiation, and one year post intervention.
Primary	Change in Physical Activity Habits	Participants complete self report survey indicating their physical activity habits, including minutes of engaging in vigorous and moderate physical activity. Measures will include average daily minutes of engaging in physical activity, and adherence to WHO recommendation (150 minutes of moderate physical activity a week, or 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity a week).	At baseline, 15 weeks after intervention initiation, and one year post intervention.
Primary	Health Promotion projects in the Work Place	Each participant will have implemented a health promotion project in their workplace, according to the timeline and goals defined in each project. This will be assessed through phone interviews with the participants.	One year post intervention
Secondary	Change in Self Efficacy	Self Efficacy will be assessed through self report questionnaires, assessing participants self efficacy regarding their leadership skills, ability to implement a health promotion project, create partnerships, evaluate a project, and influence women in their community.	At baseline, 15 weeks after intervention initiation, and one year post intervention.
Secondary	Change in cardiovascular disease knowledge	Cardiovascular disease knowledge will be assessed through a self report questionnaire based on the American Heart Association's Cardiovascular disease knowledge survey items	At baseline, 15 weeks after intervention initiation, and one year post intervention.