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Associations Between the Breakroom Built Environment, Worker Health Habits, and Worker Health Outcomes: A Pilot Study Among Public Transit Rail Operators.
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ABSTRACT: Objective
To investigate the association between the breakroom built environment and worker health outcomes.Methods
We conducted this study in a mass transit organization (rail). We collected a user-reported breakroom quality score (worker survey), a worksite health promotion score (validated audit tool), and self-reported worker health outcomes (survey).Results
Among the 12 breakrooms audited and 127 rail operators surveyed, the average worksite health promotion score was 9.1 (out of 15) and the average user-reported breakroom quality was 3.1 (out of 7). After multivariable regression, breakrooms with higher worksite health promotion scores and user-reported breakroom quality were associated with lower odds of depression and fewer medical disability days.Conclusions
This cross-sectional study demonstrates an association between the quality of the breakroom built environment and worker health, specifically depression and medical disability days.
SUBMITTER: Jones NM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7769126 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Publications
Associations Between the Breakroom Built Environment, Worker Health Habits, and Worker Health Outcomes: A Pilot Study Among Public Transit Rail Operators.
Journal of occupational and environmental medicine 20200801 8
<h4>Objective</h4>To investigate the association between the breakroom built environment and worker health outcomes.<h4>Methods</h4>We conducted this study in a mass transit organization (rail). We collected a user-reported breakroom quality score (worker survey), a worksite health promotion score (validated audit tool), and self-reported worker health outcomes (survey).<h4>Results</h4>Among the 12 breakrooms audited and 127 rail operators surveyed, the average worksite health promotion score wa ...[more]
