Activate Your Health, a 3-year, multi-site, workplace healthy lifestyle promotion program: study design

Abstract

Background Workplace Health Promotion Programs (WHPP) have been shown to be an efficient way of improving workers’ health. These programs can be incorporated in the worker’s daily schedule and improve their productivity at work. Improving employees’ health also benefits the employers by increasing their return on investment and lowering healthcare costs. The Activate Your Health program, created by Capsana in 2015, is a WHPP targeting multiple lifestyle habits for a three-year period. This WHPP includes tailored web-based interventions and the support of different health professionals throughout the years. We hypothesize that this approach will yield long-term lifestyle changes. The objective of the current paper is to describe the Activate Your Health program’s design. Methods/design Eleven companies are taking part in this WHPP and had to choose among five different options of this program and all their employees were encouraged to participate. Each option differs by the number and type of interventions included. The limited option, which is considered the control group, only consists in completing a questionnaire regarding their health status, lifestyle habits and behaviors. On the other end, the extensive option receives a combination of multiple interventions: online menus, health challenges, support in creating a healthy work environment, coaching by health professionals (nurse, nutritionist, and kinesiologist), health screening and flexibility assessment, online resources, social health platform, and activity tracking. The remaining options are in between these options and vary by the amount of intervention. Baseline data are already gathered; two other data collection periods will take place after one and 2 years into the program. The primary outcomes of the current program are physical activity and fitness measures, nutritional data, smoking habits, stress and intention to change. Discussion The Activate Your Health program will allow us to compare which combinations of interventions are the most effective. It is expected that the extensive option will be the most advantageous to improve lifestyle habits. The results will indicate the strength and weakness of each intervention and how it could be improved. Trial registration Clinicaltrails.gov, registration number: NCT02933385 (updated on the 26th of March 2019, initially registered on the 5th of October 2016).

Entorno laboral saludable en Asia y América del Norte revisión de alcance

“…De ese modo, se encontraron cinco artículos que describen el alto riesgo que tienen los trabajadores de presentar obesidad en las empresas; así lo mencionan las investigaciones orientadas en la promoción de la salud, los autores Contreras et al (11) (16); teniendo en cuenta los resultados de trabajadores con obesidad y los riesgos a lo que se exponen, es necesario promover una cultura de promoción de la salud en el lugar de trabajo, con el fin de favorecer un ELS. De tal forma, se reconoce el alto riesgo que representa el sobrepeso y la obesidad en la incidencia de varias enfermedades crónicas como: hipertensión arterial y enfermedad isquémica coronaria.…”

“…En cuatro artículos se observó que utilizaron un instrumento validado, como la herramienta de evaluación del entorno laboral saludable (HWEAT, por su sigla en inglés). Que es un recurso para que las unidades y organizaciones de atención al usuario, evalúen el entorno laboral y rastreen el progreso en su camino hacia la excelencia de las organizaciones (16). Según la revisión elaborada hasta la fecha, se desconoce otro instrumento que presente alta validez y confiabilidad en dicho objetivo.…”

Health-Related and Lifestyle Factors as Predictors of Intentions to Improve Lifestyle Habits in Employees Participating in a Workplace Health Promotion Program

“…Activate Your Health is a WHPP created by Capsana 27 . It includes a research component and is evaluated in eight companies in Quebec, Canada with the partnership of the Public Health Agency of Canada 28 . Participating companies are located in a variety of sectors ranging from bank-related organizations to graveyard administration.…”

“…27 It includes a research component and is evaluated in eight companies in Quebec, Canada with the partnership of the Public Health Agency of Canada. 28 Participating companies are located in a variety of sectors ranging from bank-related organizations to graveyard administration. Participating companies picked the following options of this WHPP: Control, Light, Moderate, and High.…”

The development and evaluation of a web-based well-being intervention, for inclusion within an existing health promotion programme, to support and encourage health related lifestyle behaviour change

“…For example, a study protocol for a life-course, multiple HRLB intervention 'MoBILE' was identified (Bendtsen et al, 2020). Alongside an ongoing three-year workplace health promotion programme study 'activate your health' (Kugathasan et al, 2019) which included staff from 11 private sector organisations and offered several interventions to explore the impact of different combinations of lifestyle interventions on behaviour change and health improvement. Such interventions aim to address the effects of clustered lifestyle behaviours and their higher associated risk for chronic disease (Myint et al, 2009).…”