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

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• Alternative Title:
  Am J Health Promot
• Personal Author:
  Cluff, Laurie A. ; Lang, Jason E. ; Rineer, Jennifer R. ; Jones-Jack, Nkenge H. ; Strazza, Karen M.
• 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.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Article Employer Training Evidence-based Health Promotion Interventions Training Evaluation Training Models Workplace Health Promotion
• 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
• Volume:
  32
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:31fdbd9afa69547c71ee9027cc30d25d75a74f1d382617edba139d1422460eaf
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/56982/cdc_56982_DS1.pdf
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