Active Your Health: A Workplace Healthy Lifestyle Program

Activate Your Health Program : A Workplace Healthy Lifestyle Program

Currently there are very few studies that integrate classical interventions (screening clinics) and online tools in order to obtain sustainable lifestyle changes in workers efficiently. The current project aims to evaluate the efficiency of a combined approach versus the more traditional approach. Health Data collected by CAPSANA in the workplace between 2012 and 2014 showed that, out of 4231 workers, 69% should aim to do more active lifestyle and 74% to a better nutrition profile. In addition, 53% of the sampled population were overweight. In this context, the current project aims to motivate aims to motivate and follow individuals towards a healthier lifestyle. To do so, the Activate Your Health will be implemented and tested using various options (limited to more complete) in several companies.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Exercise; Nutrition; Lifestyle
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Health Risks assessement; Behavioral: Web-based health discussions; Behavioral: SOScuisine website; Behavioral: Health screening; Behavioral: Closing events; Behavioral: Coaching; Behavioral: Social Health platform; Behavioral: Accelerometer provided

Detailed Description

Currently, lifestyle habits of workers does not only represents a personal concern, but also a concern of the company. Currently there are very few studies that efficiently integrate classical interventions (screening) and online tools in order to obtain sustainable lifestyle changes in workers. The current project aims to evaluate efficacy of a combined approach versus more traditional approaches. Health Data collected by CAPSANA in the workplace between 2012 and 2014 showed that, out of 4231 workers, 69% should aim at a more active lifestyle and 74% at a better nutritional profile. In addition, 53% of the sampled population were overweight.

In this context, the current project aims to motivate and follow individuals towards a healthier lifestyle. To do so, the Activate Your Health will be implemented and tested using various options (limited to more complete) in several companies. It is planned to compare to a control group receiving no intervention to the other groups containing little to complete set of interventions. The content of the interventions involves health assessment, electronic tools (SOScuisine and social media platform), health screening, activity monitor tool and closing events. The companies had to pick which option they would like to provide their employees. It is anticipated that the complete option will yield better results for the activity profile and other lifestyle habits. For example, changes in eating habits toward better habits are expected.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 2737
• Phase: Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 99 years (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• French Speaking, work in the participating company.

Exclusion Criteria:

• pregnant women.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: PREVENTION
• Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Interventional Model: PARALLEL
• Masking: TRIPLE

Number of Arms

5

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Full lifestyle program; Participants receive all the intervention tools that aimed to enhance lifestyle profile.	Behavioral: Health Risks assessement; Home made questionnaire questioning about the participant's lifestyle habits, risk factors and other.; Behavioral: Web-based health discussions; Create interactions between the employees.; Behavioral: SOScuisine website; Site that is personalized to the employee. It provides menus, grocery shopping list and other.; Behavioral: Health screening; Screen for diabetes, cholesterol, blood pressure and body weight.; Behavioral: Closing events; these aim to motivate the employees to continue into the program.; Behavioral: Coaching; The first year participant will be coached by a nurse, second year by a nutritionist, and third year by a kinesiologist.; Behavioral: Social Health platform; Behavioral: Accelerometer provided; Social Health Platform: employees can challenge themselves or each other.
Experimental: High lifestyle program; Participants receive most of the intervention tools that aimed to enhance lifestyle profile.	Behavioral: Health Risks assessement; Home made questionnaire questioning about the participant's lifestyle habits, risk factors and other.; Behavioral: Web-based health discussions; Create interactions between the employees.; Behavioral: SOScuisine website; Site that is personalized to the employee. It provides menus, grocery shopping list and other.; Behavioral: Health screening; Screen for diabetes, cholesterol, blood pressure and body weight.; Behavioral: Closing events; these aim to motivate the employees to continue into the program.; Behavioral: Coaching; The first year participant will be coached by a nurse, second year by a nutritionist, and third year by a kinesiologist.; Behavioral: Social Health platform
Experimental: Moderate lifestyle program; Participants receive some intervention tools that aimed to enhance lifestyle profile.	Behavioral: Health Risks assessement; Home made questionnaire questioning about the participant's lifestyle habits, risk factors and other.; Behavioral: Web-based health discussions; Create interactions between the employees.; Behavioral: SOScuisine website; Site that is personalized to the employee. It provides menus, grocery shopping list and other.; Behavioral: Closing events; these aim to motivate the employees to continue into the program.; Behavioral: Coaching; The first year participant will be coached by a nurse, second year by a nutritionist, and third year by a kinesiologist.
Experimental: Light lifestyle program; Participants receive little intervention tools that aimed to enhance lifestyle profile.	Behavioral: Health Risks assessement; Home made questionnaire questioning about the participant's lifestyle habits, risk factors and other.; Behavioral: Web-based health discussions; Create interactions between the employees.; Behavioral: SOScuisine website; Site that is personalized to the employee. It provides menus, grocery shopping list and other.
No Intervention: Control group; Participants receive none of the intervention tools that aimed to enhance lifestyle profile.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Physical activity profile (intensity, frequency and duration) measured by questionnaire	Based on a questionnaire we will be able to calculate physical activity duration, intensity and frequency will be obtained.	365 days

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Nutritional profile (fruit and vegetables intake) will be obtained by questionnaire	Based on a questionnaire we will be able to calculate nutrition parameters (# of fruits and vegetables per day).	365 days

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Université de Montréal

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Kugathasan TA, Lecot F, Laberge S, Tremblay J, Mathieu ME. Activate Your Health, a 3-year, multi-site, workplace healthy lifestyle promotion program: study design. BMC Public Health. 2019 Aug 19;19(1):1140. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-7393-x.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 1, 2016
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): January 1, 2020
• Study Completion (Anticipated): January 1, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 5, 2016
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 12, 2016
• First Posted (Estimate): October 14, 2016

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 28, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 26, 2019
• Last Verified: March 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: University of Montreal

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No