Work Site Health Promotion Research: To what Extent can we Generalize the Results and what is Needed to Translate Research to Practice?

2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 537-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheana Salyers Bull ◽  
Cynthia Gillette ◽  
Russell E. Glasgow ◽  
Paul Estabrooks
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Behavior ◽  
Behavior Interventions ◽  
Participation Rates ◽  
Research To Practice ◽  
Work Site ◽  
Health Behavior Interventions ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Work Site Health Promotion ◽  
Implementation Data

Information on external validity of work site health promotion research is essential to translate research findings to practice. The authors provide a literature review of work site health behavior interventions. Using the RE-AIM framework, they summarize characteristics and results of these studies to document reporting of intervention reach, adoption, implementation, and maintenance. The authors reviewed a total of 24 publications from 11 leading health behavior journals. They found that participation rates among eligible employees were reported in 87.5% of studies; only 25% of studies reported on intervention adoption. Data on characteristics of participants versus nonparticipants were reported in fewer than 10% of studies. Implementation data were reported in 12.5% of the studies. Only 8% of studies reported any type of maintenance data. Stronger emphasis is needed on representativeness of employees, work site settings studied, and longer term results. Examples of how this can be done are provided.

Health Behavior, Quality of Work Life, and Organizational Effectiveness in the Lumber Industry

1999 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 579-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart I. Donaldson ◽  
Steve Sussman ◽  
Clyde W. Dent ◽  
Herbert H. Severson ◽  
Jacqueline L. Stoddard
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Behavior ◽  
Organizational Effectiveness ◽  
Employee Health ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Quality Of Work Life ◽  
Work Site ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
Work Site Health Promotion

A major incentive for work-site health promotion activities has been the promise of increased company profitability. Some critics have challenged the economic argument based on distal outcomes such as increased employee longevity and less morbidity later in life. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between employee health behavior, quality of work life, and proximal organizationally valued outcomes. Data were collected from a stratified random sample of employees working at Pacific Lumber Company ( N = 146), the largest single-site lumber mill in California. Although employee sleep patterns predicted health care utilization and psychological well-being, for the most part employee health behaviors were not strong predictors of proximal organizational effectiveness factors. However, quality-of-work-life factors significantly predicted organizational commitment, absenteeism, and tardiness frequency. The findings suggest the value of improving the system of work in which employees are embedded as part of comprehensive work-site health promotion efforts.

A Person × Intervention Strategy Approach to Understanding Health Behavior

2018 ◽  
pp. 830-856
Author(s):  
Alexander J. Rothman ◽  
Austin S. Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Behavior ◽  
Intervention Strategy ◽  
Moderated Mediation ◽  
Behavior Interventions ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Mediated Moderation ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Health Behavior Interventions

This chapter suggests that an integration of perspectives from personality and social psychology (i.e., a Person × Intervention strategy framework) provides a rich context to explore precise specifications of the mediators and moderators that guide health behavior and decision-making. First discussed is how conceptualizations of moderated mediation and mediated moderation can enrich theory and serve to enumerate specific principles to guide the development and dissemination of more effective health behavior interventions. Second, research is reviewed from four different literatures that rely on a similar Person × Intervention strategy framework (i.e., the effectiveness of an intervention strategy depends on the degree to which it matches features of the target person) to examine evidence for the processes that mediate the effect of this moderated intervention approach. Finally described is how a more systematic analysis of the interplay between mediating and moderating processes can stimulate advances in theory, intervention research, and practice of health behavior.

Health Behavior Interventions

2020 ◽  
pp. 193-202
Author(s):  
Casey K. Gardiner ◽  
Arielle S. Gillman ◽  
Courtney J. Stevens ◽  
Angela D. Bryan
Keyword(s):  
Health Behavior ◽  
Behavior Interventions ◽  
Health Behavior Interventions

Effects of Work-Site Health Promotion on Illness-Related Absenteeism

1993 ◽  
Vol 35 (11) ◽  
pp. 1142-1147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Jeffery ◽  
Jean L. Forster ◽  
Bonny V. Dunn ◽  
Simone A. French ◽  
Paul G. McGovern ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Work Site ◽  
Related Absenteeism ◽  
Work Site Health Promotion

Targeted Health Behavior Interventions Promoting Physical Activity

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip J. Morgan ◽  
Myles D. Young ◽  
Jordan J. Smith ◽  
David R. Lubans
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Health Behavior ◽  
Behavior Interventions ◽  
Health Behavior Interventions
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