Oregon Healthy Workforce Center

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• Personal Author:
  Anger WK ; Hammer L ; Hecker S ; Montgomery D ; Olson, Ryan ; Rohlman D ; Truxillo D
• Description:
  The Oregon Healthy Workforce Center (OHWC), a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Center of Excellence in Total Worker Health (TM) (TWH) is an affiliation of Oregon Health & Science University's (OHSU) Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences (OHWC home), Portland State University's (PSU) Occupational Health Psychology program, the University of Oregon's Labor Education Research Center (LERC), and the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research. OHWC faculty and staff developed and evaluated Total Worker Health intervention programs that integrate safety, health, wellness and well-being. It is the only Center focused on intervention effectiveness, successfully conducting randomized trials of innovative interventions and adding value with a cross-study database (Data Repository) of common measures across projects. The OHWC, located in the Pacific Northwest, serves as a resource for the western states. The OHWC used team- and technology-based interventions to promote and protect health, and designed to be disseminated broadly to the workplace. The OHWC 2011- 2016 program consisted of four research projects (two initially conceptualized as translational projects), educational programs and outreach that are inter-related. The OHWC published TWH interventions from the research studies we have conducted in home care workers (independent contractors paid by Medicaid), public and commercial construction workers and young workers in parks and recreation. The interventions produced 81 statistically significant beneficial changes in safety, health, wellness and well-being, of which 25 had a medium effect size and 18 had a large effect size (per Cohen). The improvements included important changes in the environment or at the organizational level (e.g., training employees to use tools correctly and supervisors to recognize the value of employee work life balance and safety communication, and an increased community of practice), biomarkers (e.g., lower BMI, reduced blood pressure), individual behavioral changes measured with standardized self-report survey measures), and in well-being measured by standardized surveys (e.g., healthier lifestyles, improved life satisfaction, reduced negative affect). Three fourths of the participants rated the interventions from very good to excellent and would recommend the training to others. The training in all the interventions produced learning based on pre-test to post-test score changes in training knowledge; the effect sizes were large. In sum, the OHWC investigators have: (a) demonstrated the ability to conduct strong interventions in large population samples, (b) produced important changes in multiple risk factors in the same intervention, (c) provided effective training (large effect sizes), and (d) intervention methods that were well liked by participants. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Biomarkers Education Health Promotion Occupational Health Public Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Health Communications Health Promotion Information Dissemination Injury Prevention Intervention Effectiveness Occupational Health Services Public Health Total Worker Health Training Research TWH Work Organization

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• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Final Cooperative Agreement Report
• Place as Subject:
  Oregon ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-35
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20053861
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2019-100392
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U19-OH-010154, 2017 May; :1-35
• Contact Point Address:
  W. Kent Anger, PhD, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd L606, Portland, OR 97239
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction ; Healthcare and Social Assistance
• Performing Organization:
  Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20110901
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/218785/cdc_218785_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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