Effectiveness of the Healthy Workplace Participatory Program With Peer-led Teams in Public Sector Healthcare Facilities

Sponsor
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Study ID
NCT04251429
Status
Enrolling By Invitation

Conditions

  • Burnout, Caregiver
  • Musculoskeletal Pain
  • Work-Related Condition
  • Work-related Injury

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
18 Years - N/A
Healthy Volunteers
Accepted

Interventions

  • CPH-NEW Healthy Workplace Participatory Program — OTHER
    A participatory program for increasing effectiveness of occupational health and safety committees or peer-led employee teams through root cause analysis, prioritizing health and safety needs for effective problem-solving, identifying feasible interventions, and presenting these to senior leadership. Interventions are selected and implemented by leadership and evaluated by both teams.

Study Details

Safety \& Health through Integrated, Facilitated Teams (SHIFT) is an intervention study to enhance employee health, safety, and well-being in public sector healthcare institutions in New England. The investigators will evaluate the effectiveness of an adapted form of the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace (CPH-NEW) Healthy Workplace Participatory Program (HWPP) for strengthening cohesiveness, engagement, and impact of pre-existing joint labor-management health and safety committees. The sites are enrolled in three pairs, matched by agency and type of services. For each pair of sites, one will be randomly selected for immediate HWPP coaching. The paired organization will serve as a control until the study mid-point, at which time all sites will be coached. Process evaluations will examine barriers to and facilitators of program uptake, reach, and effectiveness. Survey data and injury records will be examined in intervention and control groups to describe the frequencies of workplace and non-occupational exposures of selected health outcomes.

Key Dates

First listed
Jan 31, 2020
Start date
Sep 1, 2016
Status verified
Apr 2026
Primary completion
Aug 31, 2027
Completion
Aug 31, 2027

Study Design

Enrollment
3,300 participants (estimated)
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
CROSSOVER
Primary purpose
OTHER

Arms

  • Experimental: Immediate Intervention Group
    SHIFT study team provides coaching to Health and Safety Committee to implement a participatory program for increasing committee effectiveness.
  • Other: Delayed Intervention Group
    Active Comparator for 2 years: status quo program remains in place with new ongoing data collection. Then experimental intervention as above.

Primary Outcome Measure

Change in Team Attendance [ Time Frame: Through study completion, an average of three years ]

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