WittyFit - Live Your Work Differently (WittyFit)

Individuals spend one third of their life working. Age of retirement is regularly pushed back. The main challenge in the nearest future will be to maintain workers health to deal with their work till retirement. Morbidity before retirement has a huge cost, both in public health and economically for companies. Numerous factors increase morbidity such as stress at work, sedentary and low physical activity, and poor nutrition habits. Nowadays, digital world wildly invades lives and offer a no-limit possibility to interact with individuals, everywhere. Thus, a software able to understand an individual in its globality seems to address this challenge. Moreover, managers need to understand the actions needed within their company. The objective of WittyFit is to increase life expectancy and well-being. WittyFit will constitute a powerful database to build strong evidence and new knowledge on the relationships between work, behavior, and health, based on a large amount of epidemiological data.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Mortality
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: wittyFit concept

Detailed Description

1. Whereas other interventional software focus on a specific aim (relaxation, musculo-skeletal disorder, etc), Wittyfit has the ambition to promote health with a global understanding of workers, based on continuous and updated scientific knowledge (evidence based medicine). A feedback is given on targets screened from questionnaires through e-learning and personalized motivating messages.
2. The second novelty of WittyFit is that managers will also have an anonymous feedback on the general state of health and problems encountered by its employees, in general or by department if the sample size is sufficiently high. Managers will indeed be able to target specific actions such as promoting physical activity at work or helping its employees to quit smoking.
3. Third, WittyFit is a prevention tool in collaboration with occupational medicine, which may help to detect a high risk toward the integrity of an employee.
4. Moreover, WittyFit is in fact based on two databases: "WittyFit" which deals with behavioral data, and "WittyFit Research" which deals with medical data. To guarantee the highest level of security, the two databases are separate and do not communicate together; physicians from the CHU of Clermont-Ferrand will be the only individuals with an access to medical data.
5. When a worker will leave Wittyfit, the company will encode three possibilities: retirement, move for another company, or premature death. Therefore, WittyFit will have the ability to have mortality as a primary outcome.
6. Finally, WittyFit may constitute a powerful database to build strong evidence and new knowledge on the relationships between lifestyle and health, based on huge amount of epidemiological data.
7. At last, WittyFit will evolve with the waves of connected objects further increasing its data accuracy, with the use of devices such as pedometers, heart rate monitors, accelerometers, thermometer, etc.
8. WittyFit is building a rainbow: work (shiftwork, sedentary job, particular occupations, etc) / psychology and physiology / statistics modeling / public health, and in general, health.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 100
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Clermont-Ferrand, France, 63003
    • Recruiting
    • Chu Clermont-Ferrand

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• All workers who want to participate to the WittyFit concept will be included.

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Other: workers; Workers will fulfil a visual analog scale of Well-being regarding 3 main categories: "Physically", "Mentally", "At Work".	Behavioral: wittyFit concept

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
all cause mortality	When a worker will leave Wittyfit, the company will encode three possibilities: retirement, move for another company, or premature death.	every year, up to 10 years

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
visual analog scale of physical well-being	However individuals will be able to spontaneously complete this data more frequently	every 15 days, up to 10 years
visual analog scale of mental well-being	however individuals will be able to spontaneously complete this data more frequently	every 15 days, up to 10 years
visual analog scale of well-being at-work	however individuals will be able to spontaneously complete this data more frequently	every 15 days, up to 10 years
Nutritional intake measured by questionnaire	however individuals will be able to spontaneously complete this data more frequently	every 6 months, up to 10 years
Physical activity measured by questionnaire	however individuals will be able to spontaneously complete this data more frequently	every 6 months, up to 10 years
Sleep measured by questionnaire	however individuals will be able to spontaneously complete this data more frequently	every 6 months, up to 10 years
Musculo-skeletal disorders measured by questionnaire	Every participant can fulfil questionnaires when he wants. however individuals will be able to spontaneously complete this data more frequently	every 6 months, up to 10 years
Hospital and Anxiety Depression Scale	however individuals will be able to spontaneously complete this data more frequently	every 6 months, up to 10 years
Stress and Mood measured by questionnaire	however individuals will be able to spontaneously complete this data more frequently	every 6 months, up to 10 years
job strain measured by questionnaire	however individuals will be able to spontaneously complete this data more frequently	every 6 months, up to 10 years
latitude decision measured by questionnaire	however individuals will be able to spontaneously complete this data more frequently	every 6 months, up to 10 years
work organization and tasks measured by questionnaire	however individuals will be able to spontaneously complete this data more frequently	every 6 months, up to 10 years
social support measured by questionnaire	however individuals will be able to spontaneously complete this data more frequently	every 6 months, up to 10 years
recognition measured by questionnaire	however individuals will be able to spontaneously complete this data more frequently	every 6 months, up to 10 years
disease and medical history measured by questionnaire		every 12 months, up to 10 years
routine medications measured by questionnaire		every 12 months, up to 10 years
number of days of sick leave provided by the employer		every 12 months, up to 10 years
sales turnover of the company, provided by the employer		every 12 months, up to 10 years
net income or net gain of the company, provided by the employer		every 12 months, up to 10 years

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
• Collaborators: Australian Catholic University; WittyFit

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Dutheil F, Pereira B, Bouillon-Minois JB, Clinchamps M, Brousses G, Dewavrin S, Cornet T, Mermillod M, Mondillon L, Baker JS, Schmidt J, Moustafa F, Lanhers C. Validation of Visual Analogue Scales of job demand and job control at the workplace: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open. 2022 Mar 17;12(3):e046403. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046403.
• Colin-Chevalier R, Pereira B, Benson AC, Dewavrin S, Cornet T, Dutheil F. The Protective Role of Job Control/Autonomy on Mental Strain of Managers: A Cross-Sectional Study among Wittyfit's Users. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Feb 14;19(4):2153. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19042153.
• Serole C, Auclair C, Prunet D, Charkhabi M, Lesage FX, Baker JS, Mermillod M, Gerbaud L, Dutheil F. The Forgotten Health-Care Occupations at Risk of Burnout-A Burnout, Job Demand-Control-Support, and Effort-Reward Imbalance Survey. J Occup Environ Med. 2021 Jul 1;63(7):e416-e425. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002235.
• Clinchamps M, Auclair C, Prunet D, Pfabigan D, Lesage FX, Baker JS, Parreira L, Mermillod M, Gerbaud L, Dutheil F. Burnout Among Hospital Non-Healthcare Staff: Influence of Job Demand-Control-Support, and Effort-Reward Imbalance. J Occup Environ Med. 2021 Jan 1;63(1):e13-e20. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002072.
• Dutheil F, Duclos M, Naughton G, Dewavrin S, Cornet T, Huguet P, Chatard JC, Pereira B. WittyFit-Live Your Work Differently: Study Protocol for a Workplace-Delivered Health Promotion. JMIR Res Protoc. 2017 Apr 13;6(4):e58. doi: 10.2196/resprot.6267.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: May 1, 2015
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): October 1, 2018
• Study Completion (Anticipated): October 1, 2018

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 15, 2015
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 3, 2015
• First Posted (Estimate): November 4, 2015

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): November 4, 2015
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 3, 2015
• Last Verified: November 1, 2015

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Terms related to this study

• Keywords: physical activity; health; nutrition; behavior; stress; mortality; management; morbidity; lifestyle; public health; work
• Other Study ID Numbers: CHU-0247