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

Hadassah Medical Center

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Lifestyle Risk Reduction; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Empowerment

Treatments: Behavioral: Health Promotion Training for Women Employees

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03295136

WRK-HMO-CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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).

Enrollment: 45 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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45 participants in 1 patient group

Health Promotion Training for Women Employees

Experimental group

Description:

Groups of women employees will participate in a 20 session health promotion training course. The course will include health education and health promotion knowledge and skills, as well as leadership and project building skills, including empowerment, change process, recruiting partners and more. The first 15 sessions will be weekly session, while the remaining five will take place every couple of months throughout the following year.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Health Promotion Training for Women Employees