POWERPLAY Phase 2: Development and Evaluation in Male-dominated Workplaces

Joan Bottorff498 enrolled

Overview

With funding from the Alberta Ministry of Labour (Grant #095244772), a program called POWERPLAY (www.powerplayatwork.com), designed to promote men's health at work, will be evaluated in workplaces in Alberta.

In year 1, this project includes two main research components: 1. A pragmatic (real world) study will be conducted employing a quasi-experimental (not a randomized controlled trial), before and after design to evaluate the effectiveness of the POWERPLAY program. 2. An integrated set of research activities (systematic review, sleep behaviors and consultation groups) will be used to provide the basis for developing recommendations for promoting sleep health in male-dominated workplaces, and inform the development and testing of a POWERPLAY sleep health module (REST-UP) in Year 2.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

498

Conditions

Men Health Behavior Mental Health Wellness 1 Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Interventions

POWERPLAYBEHAVIORAL

Employees from participating worksites will be invited to completed surveys prior to and following implementation of a workplace wellness program (called "POWERPLAY")

Eligibility

Sex: MALEMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Men employed in participating workplaces, full-time or part-time, in any position within the organizations. Exclusion Criteria: * Although females may participate in the POWERPLAY program and surveys, they will not be included in the evaluation.

Locations (3)

Shell Canada Ltd (Scotford Site)

Ft Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada

Roper Ventures

Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, Canada

PeroxyChem

Prince George, British Columbia, Canada

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity

Minutes of Moderate to Vigorous physical activity will be assessed using self-report at baseline and follow-up using the Godin Leisure-Time Exercise Questionnaire (Godin \& Shephard, 1985). The Godin Leisure-Time Exercise Questionnaire contains three self-report questions that assess both the average frequency and duration (in minutes) of mild, moderate, and vigorous activities during free time over a typical week. Frequency and minutes are multiplied to obtain minutes per week (range from 0 and up). Weekly moderate and vigorous activity minutes will be summed and compared from baseline to follow-up, with higher scores indicating more activity. In addition, a cutoff of 150 minutes in 7 days will be used to classify participants as meeting or not meeting Canadian guidelines for physical activity at baseline and follow-up.

Time frame: 4 months

Mental Wellness

Mental well-being will be assessed using the well validated Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (SWEMWBS) (Haver, Akerjordet, Caputi, Furunes, \& Magee, 2015; Tennant et al., 2007) at baseline and follow-up. Participants respond to 7-items (e.g., "I've been feeling optimistic about the future") on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from none of the time (1) to all of the time (5), with higher scores reflecting greater mental well-being. The SWEMWBS is scored by summing the score for each of the seven items (possible range 7-35).

Time frame: 4 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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