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Sponsors and Collaborators: |
University of Washington Centers for Disease Control and Prevention American Cancer Society |
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Information provided by: | University of Washington |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00452816 |
The objective of the project is to understand how best to help mid-size employers adopt evidence-based chronic disease prevention practices that improve employee health behaviors.
Condition | Intervention |
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Health Behavior Chronic Disease |
Behavioral: Workplace Solutions Consulting approach Behavioral: Delayed intervention |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Prevention, Randomized, Open Label, Parallel Assignment, Efficacy Study |
Official Title: | Marketing Workplace Chronic Disease Prevention |
Enrollment: | 48 |
Study Start Date: | April 2007 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | September 2009 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | August 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
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Intervention: Experimental
Intervention Group - Workplace Solutions Consulting
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Behavioral: Workplace Solutions Consulting approach
Consulting process includes:
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2: Active Comparator
Delayed Intervention
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Behavioral: Delayed intervention
Abbreviated version of the Workplace Solutions Consulting process applied in the intervention group
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Employers have the incentive and the means to play a key role in chronic disease prevention. The incentive - employers need to control the costly and growing burden of chronic diseases among their employees. The means - employers purchase 94% of private health insurance, and employees spend one third of their lives in the workplace, where they often eat, move, socialize, and smoke. Over the past 5 years, the CDC and the Task Force on Community Preventive Services have recommended a number of chronic disease prevention practices. Among these, we have identified 17 practices that employers should adopt. These practices include health insurance benefits, workplace policies, and workplace programs, and aim at increasing employees' disease screening, healthy eating, influenza immunization, physical activity and tobacco cessation. Unfortunately, employer surveys reveal low adoption of these practices.
Working with the American Cancer Society, our research team from the University of Washington has developed and pilot-tested an innovative consulting intervention to increase adoption of these practices. Our two-stage intervention is comprehensive yet tailored by employer feedback.
The intervention:
In this proposal, our primary aim is to test this intervention in a randomized, controlled trial among 48 medium-sized employers with a high proportion of socioeconomically disadvantaged employees in the Puget Sound area. Our primary outcome is change in employer practices as measured by survey and validated by audit and contract and policy review.
Our secondary aims include:
Our multidisciplinary research team includes business, communication, and public health faculty and has more than 10 years of experience in both chronic disease prevention and working with business. If successful, our team's approach has broad applicability to other public health problems.
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
United States, Washington | |
University of Washington | |
Seattle, Washington, United States, 98105 |
Principal Investigator: | Jeffrey R Harris, MD, MPH, MBA | University of Washington |
Responsible Party: | University of Washington ( Jeffrey Harris, Principal Investigator ) |
Study ID Numbers: | 06-4829-E/G 01, CDC Grant 1 PO1 CD000249-01 |
Study First Received: | March 26, 2007 |
Last Updated: | September 19, 2008 |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00452816 History of Changes |
Health Authority: | United States: Institutional Review Board |
Chronic Disease Employer Health Costs Health Promotion Insurance Benefits Marketing of Health Services |
Mass Screening Prevention & Control Tobacco Use Cessation Workplace |
Chronic Disease |
Disease Attributes Pathologic Processes Chronic Disease |