Health Behaviors of Medical Personnel in Hospital Maternity Ward

Hadassah Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Behavior; Health Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Improve health behaviors of medical personel

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04138732

723HBM- HMO-CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to characterize the existing health behaviors and obstacles to healthy lifestyle among the medical staff in a maternity ward in order to develop a specifically-tailored intervention to help improve the health behaviors of hospital shift workers.The findings will be used to establish a community-based participatory health-promoting program in the ward, engaging the staff in its development and implementation.

Full description

The purpose of this study is to characterize the existing health behaviors and obstacles to healthy lifestyle among the medical staff in a maternity ward in order to develop a specifically-tailored intervention to help improve the health behaviors of hospital shift workers. Shift-work has been associated with unhealthy lifestyles and increased risk of digestive disorders, heart conditions, various kinds of cancer, reproductive dysfunction, and mental conditions. Thus, the findings will be used to establish a community-based participatory health-promoting program in the ward, engaging the staff in its development and implementation. Community Based Participatory (CBP) approach will be used to build an evaluation and intervention. Baseline/needs assessment will be performed by mixed methods approach, combining in depth interviews with key personnel, focus groups and questionnaires that ask about demographics, physical activity and nutrition behaviors, stress, burnout, BMI, and cardiac risk factors.

Enrollment: 110 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Doctors, nurses, secretaries, and assistants

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Sequential Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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110 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention treatment group

Experimental group

Description:

This arm will receive the intervention treatment aimed to help improve their health behaviors. Interventions will include nutrition workshops and personal consultation for employees at risk, environmental intervention that includes brief exercise session prior to weekly meetings, placement of sports equipment in the department, and pedometer program, and stress reduction workshops. Healthy options will be demarcated in the hospital cafeteria.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Improve health behaviors of medical personel

Control group

Other group

Description:

This arm will be the control group and not receive the intervention treatment aimed to help improve their health behaviors.Once completing their time as the control group, they will continue into another phase of the trial and receive the intervention treatment.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Improve health behaviors of medical personel