Worksite Wellness Within Long-term Care Facilities

University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Worksite Health Promotion; Lifestyle Risk Reduction; Occupational Stress; Cardiovascular Diseases; Healthcare Workers

Treatments: Behavioral: WHHIP PLUS; Behavioral: Education only control

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04166643

HP-00086939

19TPA34830011

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this proposed study is to test the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of worksite wellness program designed to reduce worker stress (job and personal) and improve cardiovascular disease among long-term care workers. We also aim to test if increasing wellness behaviors in staff will translate to increased wellness behaviors in residents due to positive role modeling.

Full description

This is a cluster randomized control trial (initially intended to recruit 246 staff and 180 residents) implemented in six long-term care worksites. Three sites will be randomized to the WHHIP-PLUS & FFC and three sites will be randomized to the education-only.

The intervention occurs over 12 months and measures will be collected at three timepoints. We will test treatment fidelity as well as if our intervention improves Life's Simple 7 scores and reduces stress levels among long-term care workers and increases physical activity among residents.

Enrollment: 159 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Staff inclusion criteria:

18 years or older; Able to understand and speak English; Employed by the facility; Passed the evaluation to sign consent

Resident inclusion criteria:

55 years or older; Able to understand and speak English; Resident of the facility; Passed the evaluation to sign consent

No exclusion criteria for staff or residents

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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159 participants in 2 patient groups

Education only

Active Comparator group

Description:

Education

Treatment:

Behavioral: Education only control

WHHIP-PLUS and Function Focused Care

Experimental group

Description:

Component I: Stakeholder Group Involvement: Component II: Environment Assessment: Component III: Organizational Changes To Reduce Job Stress: Component IV- Worker Health Behavior Change including function focused care interventions

Treatment:

Behavioral: WHHIP PLUS