Validity and reliability properties of the Multifaceted Organizational Health Climate Assessment for measuring organizational health climate in service, clerical, and health care workers.

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• Personal Author:
  Colvin R ; Dale, Ann M. ; Evanoff B ; Strickland J ; Walsh R
• Description:
  Introduction: Total Worker Health® programs aim to improve health climate, or employees' perceptions of support for physical and mental health from coworkers, supervisors, and upper management. Health climate is linked to physical and mental health outcomes. The recently developed Multifaceted Organizational Health Climate Assessment (MOHCA) assesses general health climate and three subfactors of workgroup, supervisor, and organizational health climate in working adults and correctional employees. There is little evidence of the MOHCA's validity and reliability properties among service, clerical, and health care workers in a large hospital system. Objectives: To investigate validity and reliability properties of the MOHCA in this sample, we examined: 1) the structural validity of the MOHCA's general and subfactor scales and 2) targeting of items to persons and measurement invariance of items among racial, sex, and income subgroups. Methods: We recruited 1,283 employees (45.9% Caucasian; 67.7% female; 77.9% 1.5). Male and Non-Caucasian workers were less likely to report a workgroup supportive of recovery (p<.01). High-income and Caucasian workers were less likely to report a workgroup that encourages use of sick days (p<.01). Conclusions: A revised four-subfactor MOHCA structure with a new organizational responsiveness health climate subscale demonstrated adequate validity and reliability properties to assess health climate scores among service, clerical, and health care workers in a large hospital system. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Personnel Mental Health Nervous System Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  TWH; Total Worker Health; Mental health; Health care workers; Work organization; Health care facilities
• ISSN:
  1351-0711
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• Place as Subject:
  Iowa ; Missouri ; OSHA Region 7
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  78
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20065914
• Citation:
  Occup Environ Med 2021 Oct; 78(Suppl 1):A58
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• Performing Organization:
  University of Iowa
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20060901
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 28th International Symposium on Epidemiology in Occupational Health (EPICOH 2021), October 25-28, 2021, virtual event
• Supplement:
  1
• 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/248718/cdc_248718_DS1.pdf
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