Evaluating the Health Benefits of Workplace Policies and Practices - Phase II (WFHS)
13 dicembre 2017 aggiornato da: Lisa Berkman, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)
Although the prevalence of "family-friendly" policies in US workplaces has increased dramatically, few have been studied using scientifically sound designs.
To address this, the NIH and CDC formed the Work, Family, and Health Network (WFHN).
During Phase 1, the WFHN designed and conducted multiple pilot and feasibility studies.
For Phase 2, the WFHN implemented an innovative intervention based on Phase I pilot studies that is designed to increase family-supportive supervisor behaviors and employee control over work, and to evaluate the intervention using a group randomized experimental design.
Customized interventions were performed separately in workplaces of two separate corporate partners.
Panoramica dello studio
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Completato
Condizioni
Intervento / Trattamento
Descrizione dettagliata
Although the prevalence of "family-friendly" policies in US workplaces has increased dramatically in recent years, few have been studied using scientifically sound designs. To address this critical gap, the NIH and CDC formed the Work, Family, and Health Network (WFHN). During Phase 1, the WFHN designed and conducted multiple pilot and feasibility studies.
For Phase 2, the WFHN implemented an innovative intervention based on Phase 1 pilot studies that is designed to increase family-supportive supervisor behaviors and employee control over work, and to evaluate the intervention using a group randomized experimental design. The goal of the study is to assess the effects of a workplace intervention designed to reduce work-family conflict, and thereby improve the health and well being of employees. The study intervention is grounded in theory from multiple disciplines and supported by findings from pilot/feasibility studies. The study seeks to inform the implementation of evidence-based, family-friendly policies, and thereby improving the health and well-being of employees and their families nationwide.
The investigators assess the efficacy of the intervention via two independent, group-randomized field experiments, one at each of two employers representing different industries, referred to by alias as "LEEF" and "TOMO". LEEF is an extended care (nursing home) company and facilities were excluded if they were in very isolated settings, if there were fewer than 30 direct patient-care employees, or if facilities were recently acquired. TOMO is an Information Technology company. Within each industry partner, worksites of 50-120 employees each were randomly assigned to intervention or usual practice conditions. All employee and supervisor participants were assessed at baseline and at 6-, 12-, and 18-months post baseline, including survey interviews and health assessments.
Primary health outcomes were comprised of a cardiometabolic risk score using selected biomarkers and sleep duration and quality objectively measured using wrist actigraphy. These primary health outcomes were independently assessed as change from baseline to the 12-month wave, and separately in the two industries.
Tipo di studio
Interventistico
Iscrizione (Effettivo)
2753
Fase
- Non applicabile
Contatti e Sedi
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Luoghi di studio
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Massachusetts
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, Stati Uniti, 02318
- Harvard School of Public Health
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Criteri di partecipazione
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Criteri di ammissibilità
Età idonea allo studio
- Bambino
- Adulto
- Adulto più anziano
Accetta volontari sani
No
Sessi ammissibili allo studio
Tutto
Descrizione
Inclusion Criteria:
- LEEF: employees and supervisors with at least 22 weekly hours of direct patient care work in selected facilities
- TOMO: employees and supervisors located in the two data collection cities
Exclusion Criteria:
- LEEF: nightwork schedule
- TOMO: independent contractor classification
Piano di studio
Questa sezione fornisce i dettagli del piano di studio, compreso il modo in cui lo studio è progettato e ciò che lo studio sta misurando.
Come è strutturato lo studio?
Dettagli di progettazione
- Scopo principale: Altro
- Assegnazione: Randomizzato
- Modello interventistico: Assegnazione parallela
- Mascheramento: Separare
Armi e interventi
Gruppo di partecipanti / Arm |
Intervento / Trattamento |
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Sperimentale: LEEF Industry only: Intervention
Customized to the "Leef" (alias) workplace: A 3-month structural and social change process designed to increase employee control over work time and family supportive supervisory behaviors.
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The intervention was a 3-month structural and social change process designed to increase employee control over work time and family supportive supervisory behaviors (Kossek et al., in press).
The change process was an integration of two previously evaluated interventions (Hammer et al., 2011; Kelly et al., 2011).
A facilitator led 8 hrs of participatory sessions to transition employees from a time-based to a results-based work culture.
Supervisors participated in all change activities plus 4hrs of training in supportive supervision.
Training in family supportive supervision was implemented with behavioral computer-based training (cTRAIN, NWeta, Lake Oswego, OR) followed by 2 rounds of goal-setting and behavioral self-monitoring using an iPod Touch (Habitrack, OHSU, Portland, OR).
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Nessun intervento: LEEF Industry only: Usual Practice
Continued work conditions and practice as "Usual Practice" in that workplace
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Sperimentale: TOMO Industry only: Intervention
Customized to the "Tomo" (alias) workplace: A 3-month structural and social change process designed to increase employee control over work time and family supportive supervisory behaviors.
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The intervention was a 3-month structural and social change process designed to increase employee control over work time and family supportive supervisory behaviors (Kossek et al., in press).
The change process was an integration of two previously evaluated interventions (Hammer et al., 2011; Kelly et al., 2011).
A facilitator led 8 hrs of participatory sessions to transition employees from a time-based to a results-based work culture.
Supervisors participated in all change activities plus 4hrs of training in supportive supervision.
Training in family supportive supervision was implemented with behavioral computer-based training (cTRAIN, NWeta, Lake Oswego, OR) followed by 2 rounds of goal-setting and behavioral self-monitoring using an iPod Touch (Habitrack, OHSU, Portland, OR).
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Nessun intervento: TOMO Industry only: Usual Practice
Continued work conditions and practice as "Usual Practice" in that workplace
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Cosa sta misurando lo studio?
Misure di risultato primarie
Misura del risultato |
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Change in total sleep time
Lasso di tempo: baseline to one year later
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Average 24 hour total sleep time as assessed by ~1 week of actigraphy
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baseline to one year later
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change in wake after sleep onset
Lasso di tempo: baseline to one year later
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Amount of nightime wake after sleep onset as assessed by ~1 week of actigraphy
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baseline to one year later
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change in cardiometabolic risk score
Lasso di tempo: baseline to one year later
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The cardiometabolic risk score was created based on modifiable risk factors using an independently validated CVD risk score developed from the Framingham offspring study; including BMI, blood pressure, HbA1C, cholesterol, and tobacco consumption.
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baseline to one year later
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Misure di risultato secondarie
Misura del risultato |
Misura Descrizione |
Lasso di tempo |
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change in sleep insufficiency
Lasso di tempo: baseline to one year later
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Sleep insufficiency was assessed by the following question: How often during the past 4 weeks did you get enough sleep to feel rested upon waking up? Would you say never, rarely, sometimes, often, or very often? YES - NEVER/RARELY NO - SOMETIMES OFTEN VERY OFTEN |
baseline to one year later
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change in insomnia symptoms
Lasso di tempo: baseline to one year later
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Insomnia symptoms were assessed by the following question: During the past 4 weeks, how often did you wake up in the middle of the night or early morning? (Would you say never, less than once a week, once or twice a week, or three or more times a week?) YES - THREE OR MORE TIMES A WEEK NO - NEVER/LESS THAN ONCE A WEEK/ONCE OR TWICE A WEEK |
baseline to one year later
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Collaboratori e investigatori
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Collaboratori
Investigatori
- Investigatore principale: Lisa F Berkman, PhD, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)
- Investigatore principale: Orfeu M Buxton, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School; Harvard School of Public Health; Pennsylvania State University
Pubblicazioni e link utili
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Pubblicazioni generali
- Okechukwu CA, Souza K, Davis KD, de Castro AB. Discrimination, harassment, abuse, and bullying in the workplace: contribution of workplace injustice to occupational health disparities. Am J Ind Med. 2014 May;57(5):573-86. doi: 10.1002/ajim.22221. Epub 2013 Jun 27.
- Hammer LB, Ernst Kossek E, Bodner T, Crain T. Measurement development and validation of the Family Supportive Supervisor Behavior Short-Form (FSSB-SF). J Occup Health Psychol. 2013 Jul;18(3):285-96. doi: 10.1037/a0032612. Epub 2013 Jun 3.
- Liu S, Rovine MJ, Klein LC, Almeida DM. Synchrony of diurnal cortisol pattern in couples. J Fam Psychol. 2013 Aug;27(4):579-88. doi: 10.1037/a0033735.
- Cunningham TJ, Seeman TE, Kawachi I, Gortmaker SL, Jacobs DR, Kiefe CI, Berkman LF. Racial/ethnic and gender differences in the association between self-reported experiences of racial/ethnic discrimination and inflammation in the CARDIA cohort of 4 US communities. Soc Sci Med. 2012 Sep;75(5):922-31. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.04.027. Epub 2012 May 23.
- O'Donnell EM, Berkman LF, Subramanian SV. Manager support for work-family issues and its impact on employee-reported pain in the extended care setting. J Occup Environ Med. 2012 Sep;54(9):1142-9. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e3182554af4.
- Nelson CC, Li Y, Sorensen G, Berkman LF. Assessing the relationship between work-family conflict and smoking. Am J Public Health. 2012 Sep;102(9):1767-72. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300413. Epub 2012 Jun 21.
- Hurtado DA, Sabbath EL, Ertel KA, Buxton OM, Berkman LF. Racial disparities in job strain among American and immigrant long-term care workers. Int Nurs Rev. 2012 Jun;59(2):237-44. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-7657.2011.00948.x. Epub 2011 Dec 7.
- Sembajwe G, Wahrendorf M, Siegrist J, Sitta R, Zins M, Goldberg M, Berkman L. Effects of job strain on fatigue: cross-sectional and prospective views of the job content questionnaire and effort--reward imbalance in the GAZEL cohort. Occup Environ Med. 2012 Jun;69(6):377-84. doi: 10.1136/oem.2010.063503. Epub 2011 Aug 17.
- Wahrendorf M, Sembajwe G, Zins M, Berkman L, Goldberg M, Siegrist J. Long-term effects of psychosocial work stress in midlife on health functioning after labor market exit--results from the GAZEL study. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2012 Jul;67(4):471-80. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbs045. Epub 2012 Apr 29.
- Okechukwu CA, El Ayadi AM, Tamers SL, Sabbath EL, Berkman L. Household food insufficiency, financial strain, work-family spillover, and depressive symptoms in the working class: the Work, Family, and Health Network study. Am J Public Health. 2012 Jan;102(1):126-33. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300323. Epub 2011 Nov 28.
- Sabbath EL, Melchior M, Goldberg M, Zins M, Berkman LF. Work and family demands: predictors of all-cause sickness absence in the GAZEL cohort. Eur J Public Health. 2012 Feb;22(1):101-6. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckr041. Epub 2011 May 9.
- McHale SM, Blocklin MK, Walter KN, Davis KD, Almeida DM, Klein LC. The role of daily activities in youths' stress physiology. J Adolesc Health. 2012 Dec;51(6):623-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2012.03.016. Epub 2012 May 16.
- Blocklin MK, Crouter AC, McHale SM. Youth Supervision While Mothers Work: A Daily Diary Study of Maternal Worry. Community Work Fam. 2012;15(2):233-249. doi: 10.1080/13668803.2011.639169. Epub 2011 Dec 2.
- Almeida DM, Davis KD. Workplace Flexibility and Daily Stress Processes in Hotel Employees and their Children. Ann Am Acad Pol Soc Sci. 2011 Nov;638(1):123-140. doi: 10.1177/0002716211415608.
- Hammer LB, Kossek EE, Anger WK, Bodner T, Zimmerman KL. Clarifying work-family intervention processes: the roles of work-family conflict and family-supportive supervisor behaviors. J Appl Psychol. 2011 Jan;96(1):134-50. doi: 10.1037/a0020927.
- Ertel KA, Berkman LF, Buxton OM. Socioeconomic status, occupational characteristics, and sleep duration in African/Caribbean immigrants and US White health care workers. Sleep. 2011 Apr 1;34(4):509-18. doi: 10.1093/sleep/34.4.509.
- O'Donnell EM, Ertel KA, Berkman LF. Depressive symptoms in extended-care employees: children, social support, and work-family conditions. Issues Ment Health Nurs. 2011;32(12):752-65. doi: 10.3109/01612840.2011.609958.
- Ertel KA, Koenen KC, Berkman LF. Incorporating home demands into models of job strain: findings from the work, family, and health network. J Occup Environ Med. 2008 Nov;50(11):1244-52. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e31818c308d.
- Grandner MA, Buxton OM, Jackson N, Sands-Lincoln M, Pandey A, Jean-Louis G. Extreme sleep durations and increased C-reactive protein: effects of sex and ethnoracial group. Sleep. 2013 May 1;36(5):769-779E. doi: 10.5665/sleep.2646.
- Marino M, Li Y, Rueschman MN, Winkelman JW, Ellenbogen JM, Solet JM, Dulin H, Berkman LF, Buxton OM. Measuring sleep: accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of wrist actigraphy compared to polysomnography. Sleep. 2013 Nov 1;36(11):1747-55. doi: 10.5665/sleep.3142.
- Kossek EE, Hammer LB, Kelly EL, Moen P. Designing Work, Family & Health Organizational Change Initiatives. Organ Dyn. 2014;43(1):53-63. doi: 10.1016/j.orgdyn.2013.10.007.
- Berkman LF, Buxton O, Ertel K, Okechukwu C. Managers' practices related to work-family balance predict employee cardiovascular risk and sleep duration in extended care settings. J Occup Health Psychol. 2010 Jul;15(3):316-29. doi: 10.1037/a0019721.
- Kelly EL, Moen P, Tranby E. Changing Workplaces to Reduce Work-Family Conflict: Schedule Control in a White-Collar Organization. Am Sociol Rev. 2011 Apr;76(2):265-290. doi: 10.1177/0003122411400056.
- Hurtado DA, Okechukwu CA, Buxton OM, Hammer L, Hanson GC, Moen P, Klein LC, Berkman LF. Effects on cigarette consumption of a work-family supportive organisational intervention: 6-month results from the work, family and health network study. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2016 Dec;70(12):1155-1161. doi: 10.1136/jech-2015-206953. Epub 2016 May 25.
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Inizio studio
1 settembre 2009
Completamento primario (Effettivo)
1 dicembre 2012
Completamento dello studio (Effettivo)
1 dicembre 2012
Date di iscrizione allo studio
Primo inviato
28 gennaio 2014
Primo inviato che soddisfa i criteri di controllo qualità
29 gennaio 2014
Primo Inserito (Stima)
30 gennaio 2014
Aggiornamenti dei record di studio
Ultimo aggiornamento pubblicato (Effettivo)
15 dicembre 2017
Ultimo aggiornamento inviato che soddisfa i criteri QC
13 dicembre 2017
Ultimo verificato
1 dicembre 2017
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Altri numeri di identificazione dello studio
- P16633
- U01AG027669 (Sovvenzione/contratto NIH degli Stati Uniti)
- U01HD051218 (Sovvenzione/contratto NIH degli Stati Uniti)
- U01HD051256 (Sovvenzione/contratto NIH degli Stati Uniti)
- U01HD051276 (Sovvenzione/contratto NIH degli Stati Uniti)
- U01HD051217 (Sovvenzione/contratto NIH degli Stati Uniti)
- R01HL107240 (Sovvenzione/contratto NIH degli Stati Uniti)
- U01OH008788 (Sovvenzione/contratto NIH degli Stati Uniti)
- U01HD059773 (Sovvenzione/contratto NIH degli Stati Uniti)
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