Effectiveness of a Multilevel Workplace Health Promotion Program on Vitality, Health, and Work-Related Outcomes.
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ABSTRACT: Objective
Evaluation of the effectiveness of a workplace health promotion program on employees' vitality, health, and work-related outcomes, and exploring the influence of organizational support and the supervisors' role on these outcomes.Methods
The 5-month intervention included activities at management, team, and individual level targeting self-management to perform healthy behaviors: a kick-off session, vitality training sessions, workshops, individual coaching, and intervision. Outcome measures were collected using questionnaires, health checks, and sickness absence data at baseline, after the intervention and at 10 months follow-up. For analysis linear and generalized mixed models were used.Results
Vitality, work performance, sickness absence, and self-management significantly improved. Good organizational support and involved supervisors were significantly associated with lower sickness absence.Conclusions
Including all organizational levels and focusing on increasing self-management provided promising results for improving vitality, health, and work-related outcomes.
SUBMITTER: Hendriksen IJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4883645 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Effectiveness of a Multilevel Workplace Health Promotion Program on Vitality, Health, and Work-Related Outcomes.
Hendriksen Ingrid J M IJ Snoijer Mirjam M de Kok Brenda P H BP van Vilsteren Jeroen J Hofstetter Hedwig H
Journal of occupational and environmental medicine 20160601 6
<h4>Objective</h4>Evaluation of the effectiveness of a workplace health promotion program on employees' vitality, health, and work-related outcomes, and exploring the influence of organizational support and the supervisors' role on these outcomes.<h4>Methods</h4>The 5-month intervention included activities at management, team, and individual level targeting self-management to perform healthy behaviors: a kick-off session, vitality training sessions, workshops, individual coaching, and intervisio ...[more]
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