Worksite Health Promotion Program Participation: A Study to Examine the Determinants of Participation
Abstract
This study explores the relationship between organizational health climate and worksite health promotion program participation, specifically engaging individuals who are unlikely to make positive health behavior choices on their own. Participants consisted of employees at three separate furniture-manufacturing facilities completing a voluntary survey. Using responses (n = 349) from the health climate instrument, which is a measure of the collective attitudes, beliefs, and readiness to change a health behavior, this study identified two factors that were significant contributors to worksite health promotion program participation. Health norms, the collective attitudes regarding healthy lifestyle, as measured by the subscales-health scale and intention to make a behavior change-and "optimistic bias," the overassessment of one's personal health, were found to be predictors of participation. Additionally, significant (p < .05) predictors of self-assessed health, included perceived control to initiate, competence to carry out, and the organizational support of the health behavior change. The findings suggest that the organization's health norms and self-assessed health are associated with the worker's motivation to become involved with health promotion interventions. Offering worksite health screenings and advanced programming and creating a culture of health at work can help address program participation.
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Other drivers of employee engagement are organizational health norms and sustained organizational efforts to create a culture of employee health.
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Background
- Authors
- Hall, M. E., Bergman, R. J., & Nivens, S.
- Affiliations
- Florida Atlantic University (US)
- Lenoir–Rhyne University (US)
- ORCID
- Hall, Michael Edward
- Venue
- Health Promotion Practice
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2013-11-14
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 768-776
- ISSN
- 1524-8399 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-6372
- OpenAlex
- W2020791503
- Cited by
- 26
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 3 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 3
- FWCI
- 4.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Health Promotion Practice (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Workplace Health and Well-being
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Occupational Therapy › Occupational Health and Safety in Workplaces
- Keywords
- workplace health promotion, program participation, health norms, optimism bias, self-rated health, perceived control, organizational support, furniture workers, health behavior change, health screening
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Attitude to Health, Community Participation, Female, Health Promotion, Humans, Industry, Male, Occupational Health Services, Surveys and Questionnaires, United States, Reproducibility of Results, Health Behavior
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