Health Behaviors of Medical Personnel in Hospital Maternity Ward

Health Behaviors of Medical Personnel in Hospital Maternity Ward- Community Based Participatory Pilot

The purpose of this study is to characterize the existing health behaviors and obstacles to healthy lifestyle among the medical staff in a maternity ward in order to develop a specifically-tailored intervention to help improve the health behaviors of hospital shift workers.The findings will be used to establish a community-based participatory health-promoting program in the ward, engaging the staff in its development and implementation.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Health Behavior; Behavior
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Improve health behaviors of medical personel

Detailed Description

The purpose of this study is to characterize the existing health behaviors and obstacles to healthy lifestyle among the medical staff in a maternity ward in order to develop a specifically-tailored intervention to help improve the health behaviors of hospital shift workers. Shift-work has been associated with unhealthy lifestyles and increased risk of digestive disorders, heart conditions, various kinds of cancer, reproductive dysfunction, and mental conditions. Thus, the findings will be used to establish a community-based participatory health-promoting program in the ward, engaging the staff in its development and implementation. Community Based Participatory (CBP) approach will be used to build an evaluation and intervention. Baseline/needs assessment will be performed by mixed methods approach, combining in depth interviews with key personnel, focus groups and questionnaires that ask about demographics, physical activity and nutrition behaviors, stress, burnout, BMI, and cardiac risk factors.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 110
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Israel
  • Jerusalem, Israel, 91120
    • Hadassah Medical Organization

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: ADULT; OLDER_ADULT; CHILD
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Doctors, nurses, secretaries, and assistants

Exclusion Criteria:

• None

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: PREVENTION
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Interventional Model: SEQUENTIAL
• Masking: NONE

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Intervention treatment group; This arm will receive the intervention treatment aimed to help improve their health behaviors. Interventions will include nutrition workshops and personal consultation for employees at risk, environmental intervention that includes brief exercise session prior to weekly meetings, placement of sports equipment in the department, and pedometer program, and stress reduction workshops. Healthy options will be demarcated in the hospital cafeteria.	Behavioral: Improve health behaviors of medical personel; This arm will receive the intervention treatment aimed to help improve their health behaviors, as determined by employee-based steering committee. Interventions will target nutrition, physical activity and stress reduction
OTHER: Control group; This arm will be the control group and not receive the intervention treatment aimed to help improve their health behaviors.Once completing their time as the control group, they will continue into another phase of the trial and receive the intervention treatment.	Behavioral: Improve health behaviors of medical personel; This arm will receive the intervention treatment aimed to help improve their health behaviors, as determined by employee-based steering committee. Interventions will target nutrition, physical activity and stress reduction

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Cardiac risk factors	Initially assessed by in depth interviews with key personnel and focus groups and then assessed by self report through questionnaires.	at the end of the 1 year treatment

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
BMI	pre and post assesment of BMI via self reporting	at the end of 1 year of treatment
Burnout	Initially assessed by in depth interviews with key personnel and focus groups and then assessed by self report through questionnaires.	at the end of the 1 year treatment,
Nutrition behaviors	Initially assessed by in depth interviews with key personnel and focus groups and then assessed by self report through questionnaires assessing mediterrean diet adherence and western diet behavior	at the end of the 1 year treatment
Physical activity minutes per week	Initially assessed by in depth interviews with key personnel and focus groups and then assessed by self report through questionnaires.	at the end of the 1 year treatment

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Hadassah Medical Organization

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ACTUAL): June 15, 2016
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): December 31, 2020
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): December 31, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 27, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 23, 2019
• First Posted (ACTUAL): October 24, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): June 21, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 16, 2022
• Last Verified: June 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Hospital; Health; Community
• Other Study ID Numbers: 723HBM- HMO-CTIL

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

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