Training Employers to Implement Health Promotion Programs: Results From the CDC Work@Health® Program
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Training Employers to Implement Health Promotion Programs: Results From the CDC Work@Health® Program

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    • Alternative Title:
      Am J Health Promot
    • Publisher's site:
      http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0890117117721067
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    • Description:
      Purpose:

      Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initiated the Work@Health Program to teach employers how to improve worker health using evidence-based strategies. Program goals included (1) determining the best way(s) to deliver employer training, (2) increasing employers’ knowledge of workplace health promotion (WHP), and (3) increasing the number of evidence-based WHP interventions at employers’ worksites. This study is one of the few to examine the effectiveness of a program designed to train employers how to implement WHP programs.

      Design:

      Pre- and posttest design.

      Setting:

      Training via 1 of 3 formats hands-on, online, or blended.

      Participants:

      Two hundred six individual participants from 173 employers of all sizes.

      Intervention:

      Eight-module training curriculum to guide participants through building an evidence-based WHP program, followed by 6 to 10 months of technical assistance.

      Measures:

      The CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard and knowledge, attitudes, and behavior survey.

      Analysis:

      Descriptive statistics, paired t tests, and mixed linear models.

      Results:

      Participants’ posttraining mean knowledge scores were significantly greater than the pretraining scores (61.1 vs 53.2, P < .001). A year after training, employers had significantly increased the number of evidence-based interventions in place (47.7 vs 35.5, P < .001). Employers’ improvements did not significantly differ among the 3 training delivery formats.

      Conclusion:

      The Work@Health Program provided employers with knowledge to implement WHP interventions. The training and technical assistance provided structure, practical guidance, and tools to assess needs and select, implement, and evaluate interventions.

    • Subject:
    • Source:
      Am J Health Promot. 32(4):1062-1069.
    • Pubmed ID:
      28731383
    • Pubmed Central ID:
      PMC6043899
    • Document Type:
      Journal Article
    • Funding:
      CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
    • Collection(s):
      CDC Public Access
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