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  • Occupational Health and Safety
  • Workplace Intervention Research
  • Public Health

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  • Growing interest in the NIOSH Total Worker Health (TWH) program focuses on creating safer, health-promoting work environments.
  • A dedicated workshop convened 26 experts to address research methodologies and future directions in TWH.
  • The objective was to discuss current and promising research methods for TWH.

Framework:

  • TWH intervention studies share common challenges with general workplace interventions.
  • Unique challenges specific to TWH interventions were identified and discussed.
  • The workshop reviewed various approaches and their application to TWH intervention studies.

Implementation:

  • Experts reviewed current methodological and measurement issues in TWH research.
  • Promising methods and measurement approaches for TWH were discussed.
  • Examples of different intervention approaches and their applications were provided.

Implications:

  • Building a robust TWH intervention research base requires rigorous and valid methodologies.
  • Advances in TWH necessitate strong approaches for basic/etiologic, translational, and surveillance research.
  • The findings outline principles for developing the TWH research base and literature.