The purpose of this study is to characterize the existing health behaviors and obstacles to healthy lifestyle among the medical staff in a maternity ward in order to develop a specifically-tailored intervention to help improve the health behaviors of hospital shift workers.The findings will be used to establish a community-based participatory health-promoting program in the ward, engaging the staff in its development and implementation.
The purpose of this study is to characterize the existing health behaviors and obstacles to healthy lifestyle among the medical staff in a maternity ward in order to develop a specifically-tailored intervention to help improve the health behaviors of hospital shift workers. Shift-work has been associated with unhealthy lifestyles and increased risk of digestive disorders, heart conditions, various kinds of cancer, reproductive dysfunction, and mental conditions. Thus, the findings will be used to establish a community-based participatory health-promoting program in the ward, engaging the staff in its development and implementation. Community Based Participatory (CBP) approach will be used to build an evaluation and intervention. Baseline/needs assessment will be performed by mixed methods approach, combining in depth interviews with key personnel, focus groups and questionnaires that ask about demographics, physical activity and nutrition behaviors, stress, burnout, BMI, and cardiac risk factors.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
110
This arm will receive the intervention treatment aimed to help improve their health behaviors, as determined by employee-based steering committee. Interventions will target nutrition, physical activity and stress reduction
Hadassah Medical Organization
Jerusalem, Israel
Cardiac risk factors
Initially assessed by in depth interviews with key personnel and focus groups and then assessed by self report through questionnaires.
Time frame: at the end of the 1 year treatment
BMI
pre and post assesment of BMI via self reporting
Time frame: at the end of 1 year of treatment
Burnout
Initially assessed by in depth interviews with key personnel and focus groups and then assessed by self report through questionnaires.
Time frame: at the end of the 1 year treatment,
Nutrition behaviors
Initially assessed by in depth interviews with key personnel and focus groups and then assessed by self report through questionnaires assessing mediterrean diet adherence and western diet behavior
Time frame: at the end of the 1 year treatment
Physical activity minutes per week
Initially assessed by in depth interviews with key personnel and focus groups and then assessed by self report through questionnaires.
Time frame: at the end of the 1 year treatment
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