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Training Employers to Implement Health Promotion Programs: Results From the CDC Work@Health® Program
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PURPOSE: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initiated the Work@Health Program to teach employers how to improve worker health using evidence-based strategies. Program goals included (1) determining the best way(s) to deliver employer training, (2) increasing employers' knowledge of workplace health promotion (WHP), and (3) increasing the number of evidence-based WHP interventions at employers' worksites. This study is one of the few to examine the effectiveness of a program designed to train employers how to implement WHP programs. DESIGN: Pre- and posttest design. SETTING: Training via 1 of 3 formats hands-on, online, or blended. PARTICIPANTS: Two hundred six individual participants from 173 employers of all sizes. INTERVENTION: Eight-module training curriculum to guide participants through building an evidence-based WHP program, followed by 6 to 10 months of technical assistance. MEASURES: The CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard and knowledge, attitudes, and behavior survey. ANALYSIS: Descriptive statistics, paired t tests, and mixed linear models. RESULTS: Participants' posttraining mean knowledge scores were significantly greater than the pretraining scores (61.1 vs 53.2, P < .001). A year after training, employers had significantly increased the number of evidence-based interventions in place (47.7 vs 35.5, P < .001). Employers' improvements did not significantly differ among the 3 training delivery formats. CONCLUSION: The Work@Health Program provided employers with knowledge to implement WHP interventions. The training and technical assistance provided structure, practical guidance, and tools to assess needs and select, implement, and evaluate interventions.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Cluff, L. A., Lang, J. E., Rineer, J. R., Jones-Jack, N. H., & Strazza, K. M.
- Affiliations
- RTI International (US)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
- Corresponding author
- Lang, Jason E.
- Venue
- American Journal of Health Promotion
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2017-07-21
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1062-1069
- ISSN
- 0890-1171 (ISSN-L)
- 2168-6602
- PMC
- PMC6043899
- OpenAlex
- W2738143145
- Cited by
- 16
- References
- 16
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2
- FWCI
- 2.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- American Journal of Health Promotion (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (contract award no. 200-2007-22644 0018 to RTI Inte, contract award no. 200-2013-F-54134 to ASHLIN Mana)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Workplace Health and Well-being
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Occupational Health and Safety in Workplaces
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › School Health and Nursing Education
- Keywords
- workplace health promotion, employer-provided training, evidence-based interventions, technical assistance, employer knowledge
- MeSH terms
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S., Health Promotion, Humans, United States, Occupational Health, Workplace
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