Worksite Wellness Within Long-term Care Facilities

University of Maryland, Baltimore159 enrolled

Overview

The goal of this proposed study is to test the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of worksite wellness program designed to reduce worker stress (job and personal) and improve cardiovascular disease among long-term care workers. We also aim to test if increasing wellness behaviors in staff will translate to increased wellness behaviors in residents due to positive role modeling.

This is a cluster randomized control trial (initially intended to recruit 246 staff and 180 residents) implemented in six long-term care worksites. Three sites will be randomized to the WHHIP-PLUS \& FFC and three sites will be randomized to the education-only. The intervention occurs over 12 months and measures will be collected at three timepoints. We will test treatment fidelity as well as if our intervention improves Life's Simple 7 scores and reduces stress levels among long-term care workers and increases physical activity among residents.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

159

Conditions

Worksite Health Promotion Lifestyle Risk Reduction Cardiovascular Diseases Occupational Stress Healthcare Workers

Interventions

WHHIP PLUSBEHAVIORAL

Worksite health promotion and occupational health and safety (total worker health)

Education only controlBEHAVIORAL

Education at the start of the project

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Staff inclusion criteria: 18 years or older; Able to understand and speak English; Employed by the facility; Passed the evaluation to sign consent Resident inclusion criteria: 55 years or older; Able to understand and speak English; Resident of the facility; Passed the evaluation to sign consent No exclusion criteria for staff or residents

Locations (1)

University of Maryland School of Nursing

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Cardiovascular disease risk

Composite life simple 7 scores and individual scores from life simple 7 components (blood pressure, weight, cholesterol, blood sugar, tobacco exposure, diet, physical activity) for staff

Time frame: baseline, 6-months, 12-months

Secondary Outcomes

Short version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-Stress- (DASS-S)

Personal mood assessment tool, it can be scored as a composite mood score or three individual subscales, higher indicates more stress, 0-21 for each subscale or 0-63 for the composite for staff

Time frame: baseline, 6-months, 12-months

Job strain model tool

Tool to measure work environment for staff including job control (including decision authority \[9 items, range 9-36\] and skill discretion \[6 items, range 6-24\]), job demands (4 items, range 4-16), social support (6 items, range 6-24 ), and organizational justice (5 items, range 5-20). Lower scores are desired.

Time frame: baseline, 6-months, 12-months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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