From Cognition to Behavior: Associations of Workplace Health Culture and Workplace Health Promotion Performance With Personal Healthy Lifestyles

Chang, Yao-Tsung; Tsai, Feng Jen; Yeh, Chien-Yuh; Chen, Ruey‐Yu

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2021.745846

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“…Our results showed that perceived engagement of colleagues and management in promoting wellbeing are important determinants for the students’ and workers’ adoption of healthier behaviors, confirming recent results obtained by Chang et al, who found that health promotion activities were positively associated with peers and supervisors’ support in the workplace [ 37 ]. Similarly, for a better promotion of healthy lifestyles among students, it has been shown that the interventions have to be designed taking into account the needs of the recipients.…”

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Evaluation of an Online Course Promoting Health and Wellbeing for University Students and Employees

Ricci

Modenese

Gobba

et al. 2022

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Published studies dealing with health promotion activities, such as the improvement of physical activity and healthy eating, for workers and students prove the effectiveness of these preventive interventions. The consequent benefits include better prevention of cardiovascular risk and an improvement in quality of life. Considering this, an intervention aimed at promoting healthy eating and non-sedentary lifestyles has been implemented within an Italian university: the aim of the present research is to evaluate its effectiveness. The intervention consisted of a targeted asynchronous e-learning two-hour course on healthy eating and non-sedentary lifestyles. The attendants were 2004 university students and employees. We conducted two surveys before and after the training intervention, and, through the responses obtained, we evaluated the effectiveness of the intervention. We applied different statistical methods, including unpaired t-tests and nonparametric tests, principal components and cluster analysis. Our results indicate that the post-training knowledge has been significantly improved, compared to that pre-training (7.3 vs. 8.7, p < 0.001). Moreover, the whole sample showed an improved awareness of the importance of healthy behaviors, and perception of the University as an institution promoting a healthy lifestyle. Through the principal components analysis, we identified a unidimensional latent factor named “health and behaviors”. The cluster analysis highlighted that the sub-group reporting the lowest scores at the survey before the training was the one with the highest improvement after the intervention. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first Italian study testing, before and after a health promotion intervention, the knowledge and the attitudes and behaviors towards healthy lifestyles of a group of students and workers. Moreover, we also evaluated the pre- and post-intervention perceived health status, as well as the level of engagement of the attendants, with respect to their colleagues and management in an educational institution promoting wellbeing. The conclusions of our study support the need for further adoption of health promotion training interventions, similar to the one we performed, in order to improve healthy eating and non-sedentary behaviors among workers and students.

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Evaluation of an Online Course Promoting Health and Wellbeing for University Students and Employees

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“…9,28,48 Peer and coworker support also showed beneficial effects on employee health behavior, such as increased physical activity, healthy eating, and higher employee perceived support. 14,48 Appendix B contains the risk of bias assessment using the JBI Analytical Cross-Sectional Studies.…”

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“…The Workplace COH scale appeared most frequently as a measure in the observational and intervention studies found in the search conducted for this review (n = 6). 16,26,[35][36][37][38] The WHCS appeared once, 14 COH-INT and COH-EXT appeared two times each. 12,39 Appendix A presents the assessments of risk of bias using the QAVALS for each validity study found in the search.…”

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“…In addition, a study of 1732 Taiwanese employees found that workplace health culture was significantly related to healthy behaviors such as increased fruit and vegetable consumption and higher physical activity levels. 14 Studies have shown that employees are more likely to stay in their current job and have higher levels of job satisfaction if they have a workplace that supports their health. 16 While current research examining workplace health culture provides strong reasons for its importance, there are inconsistencies in the way it is defined and measured.…”

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A Scoping Review of Workplace Culture of Health Measures

2023

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Objective This study aimed to review existing measures of workplace culture of health and to examine the health and wellbeing outcomes associated with workplace culture of health. Data Sources PubMed/Medline, Web of Science, and PsycINFO databases searched through February 2022. Study Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria Articles were included if they used a specific measure to assess culture of health in the workplace and were published in English. Articles were excluded if there was no quantitative measure of health culture. Data Extraction Data from each article was extracted using a structured template which included study purpose, participants and setting, study design, intervention strategies (if applicable), culture of health measure, and results. Data Synthesis We described culture of health measures used and summarized key findings from included articles. Results The search yielded 31 articles measuring workplace culture of health (three validation, two intervention, and 26 observational studies). Nineteen unique measures were used across all articles. Most studies examined culture of health from the employee perspective (n = 23), while others examined it at the organizational level (n = 7). The studies indicated a positive relationship between health and well-being outcomes and a strong workplace health culture. Conclusion There are many different approaches to measuring workplace health culture. Overall, workplace culture of health is related to positive employee and organizational health and wellbeing outcomes.

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“…In China, some researchers have tried to develop workplace health culture scales, for example, Chang et al ( 34 , 45 ) developed the workplace health culture scale in Taiwan and has incorporated it into the implementation of workplace health promotion; Jia et al ( 46 , 47 ) has also developed a workplace health culture scale for China, showing application of it. However, little attention has been paid to current workplace health culture research for workers exposed to occupational hazards, such as dust, VOCs, noise.…”

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Development of occupational health culture scale: A study based on miners and construction workers

Yang

Zhao

Wang

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Front. Public Health

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Culture is an essential influence on effectiveness of workplace health promotion, which can promote occupational health protection behavior. The aim of this research was to develop and validate an occupational health culture scale available to Chinese workers. Occupational health culture scale (OHCS) was developed based on elements of health culture and safety culture in workplace. Nine techniques steps of scale development were used, including a 15-member expert group, 10 workers for cognitive interview, and 1,119 questionnaires (from 710 miners and 409 construction workers) for formal investigation. Welch's variance analysis, independent samples t-test, Kruskal–Wallis test, Spearman correlation analysis was employed, respectively, to verified nine hypotheses about impact relationship on OHCS score. After the analysis reliability and validity, the final scale consisted of 21 items in five domains: leadership support, co-workers support, values, policy and norms, employee involvement, physical environment. Moreover, respirable dust concentration from individual sampler had the largest negative correlation coefficient on OHCS score, −0.469 (p < 0.01). The development of an occupational health culture among Chinese workers is necessary for the sustainability of human resources and the implementation of corporate responsibility.

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From Cognition to Behavior: Associations of Workplace Health Culture and Workplace Health Promotion Performance With Personal Healthy Lifestyles

Cited by 7 publications

References 35 publications

Evaluation of an Online Course Promoting Health and Wellbeing for University Students and Employees

Evaluation of an Online Course Promoting Health and Wellbeing for University Students and Employees

A Scoping Review of Workplace Culture of Health Measures

Development of occupational health culture scale: A study based on miners and construction workers

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