Effectiveness of the Healthy Workplace Participatory Program for Educators
Study Details
Study Description
Brief Summary
Using a stepped wedge design (prospective cohort with concurrent controls) among six paired, elementary schools, investigators will implement and evaluate the Healthy Workplace Participatory Program (HWPP) for Educators. The investigators will evaluate whether the HWPP process improves organizational-level factors, teacher mental well-being (stress, depression and anxiety symptoms).
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Study Design
Arms and Interventions
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| Experimental: Healthy Workplace Participatory Program for Educators Staff at participating schools will experience the HWPP process and complete pre- and post-intervention survey. |
Behavioral: Healthy Workplace Participatory Program
The Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace's (CPH-NEW's) Healthy Workplace Participatory Program (HWPP) is a participatory process in which end-users design TWH interventions that simultaneously change organizational and individual behavior to improve the health, safety and well-being of their workforce. The HWPP uses a process to empower workers to identify the root causes of health and safety concerns and then design, implement and evaluate interventions to address those problems.
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| Active Comparator: Delayed Intervention Status quo program remains in place with new ongoing data collection, then experimental intervention as above. |
Behavioral: Healthy Workplace Participatory Program
The Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace's (CPH-NEW's) Healthy Workplace Participatory Program (HWPP) is a participatory process in which end-users design TWH interventions that simultaneously change organizational and individual behavior to improve the health, safety and well-being of their workforce. The HWPP uses a process to empower workers to identify the root causes of health and safety concerns and then design, implement and evaluate interventions to address those problems.
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Outcome Measures
Primary Outcome Measures
- Change in Team Attendance [Through study completion, an average of two years]
Attendance for each Design Team meeting (1-4 times per month)
- Change in Team Engagement [Through study completion, an average of two years]
Percentage of combined agree and strongly agree responses for 2 survey items collected following Design Team meetings (1-4 times per month): "I spoke up and gave my opinion at this meeting" and "The discussion was meaningful for achieving health, safety, and well-being goals." (Strongly Agree, Agree, Disagree, Strongly Disagree, Not Applicable). Items are computed individually.
- Change in Level of Committee Activity [Through study completion, an average of two years]
A qualitative summary of field notes collected by research personnel following Design Team and Steering Committee meetings (1-4 times per month) over the course of the study.
- Change in team-selected health/safety/well-being issue [Through study completion, an average of two years]
Targeted pre- and post-intervention surveys will be designed and administered by the Design Team
Secondary Outcome Measures
- Proportion of content followed according to the Healthy Workplace Participatory Program protocol [Through study completion, an average of two years]
A process measure that will be determined by adherence to HWPP protocol and pre-designed agendas for Design Team meetings (1-4 times per month)
- Change in scope of health/safety/well-being protocol [Through study completion, an average of two years]
Periodic interviews, designed by the research team, will be conducted with Design Team co-facilitators and Steering Committee Champions, and compared to results from baseline leadership interviews, designed by the research team, regarding scope of health/safety/well-being
- Shared staff-management awareness of job-related health, safety and well-being issues [Through study completion, an average of two years]
Interim interviews, designed by the research team, will be conducted with Design Team co-facilitators and Steering Committee Champions.
- Stress [Prior to random selection of immediate and delayed intervention site, and 1 years later]
The "All-Employee Survey for Educators" includes 1 question related to stress (Eddy, 2009). The score ranges from 1-10, where higher scores indicate more stress.
- Anxiety Symptoms [Prior to random selection of immediate and delayed intervention site, and 1 years later]
The "All-Employee Survey for Educators" includes 7 items from the GAD-7 (Spitzer et al., 2006). A summary score is created and scores range from 0-21, where higher scores indicate greater anxiety symptoms.
- Depression Symptoms [Prior to random selection of immediate and delayed intervention site, and 1 years later]
The "All-Employee Survey Educator" includes 10 from the CES-D (Radloff et al., 1977) A summary score is created by summing items score ranges from 0-30, where higher scores indicate greater depression symptoms.
- Supportive health climate [Prior to random selection of immediate and delayed intervention site, and 1 years later]
The "All-Employee Survey Educator" includes 3 items from Multi-faceted organizational health climate assessment (Zweber et al., 2018). A summary score is created by averaging the 3 items with score ranges from 1-4, where higher scores indicate more supportive health climate.
- Supportive School Climate [Prior to random selection of immediate and delayed intervention site, and 1 years later]
The "All-Employee Survey Educator" includes 6 from the School Climate sub-scale for staff connection (La Salle et al. 2018) A summary score is created by averaging the items with score ranges from 1-4, where higher scores indicate a greater more supportive school climate.
Eligibility Criteria
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- All staff aged 18 years or older at the time of survey administration within the three school districts will be eligible for participation.
Exclusion Criteria:
- None.
Contacts and Locations
Locations
| Site | City | State | Country | Postal Code | |
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| 1 | UConn Health | Farmington | Connecticut | United States | 06030 |
Sponsors and Collaborators
- UConn Health
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH/CDC)
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Jennifer Cavallari, ScD, UConn Health
Study Documents (Full-Text)
None provided.More Information
Publications
None provided.- 22X-123-2
- 1 U19OH012299-01-00