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Mary T Imboden1, Patricia H Castle, Sara S Johnson
1Health Enhancement Research Organization, Waconia, MN (Dr Imboden, Dr Grossmeier); Health and Human Performance Department, George Fox University, Newberg, OR (Dr Imboden); Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc., South Kingstown, RI (Dr Castle, Dr Johnson); Health and Well-being Program, University of Michigan, MHealthy, Michigan Ann Arbor, MI (Dr Jenkins); Institute for Positive Organizational Health, Cambria, CA (Dr Pitts); Mangen Research Associates, Inc., Mound, MN (Dr Mangen); Johnson & Johnson Health and Wellness Solutions, Inc., New Brunswick, NJ (Dr Mason); Mercer Health & Benefits LLC, Irvine, CA (Dr Noeldner).
Objective:
To explore the factor structure of the HERO Health and Well-being Best Practices Scorecard in Collaboration with Mercer (HERO Scorecard) to develop a reduced version and examine the reliability and validity of that version.
Methods:
A reduced version of the HERO Scorecard was developed through formal statistical analyses on data collected from 845 organizations that completed the original HERO Scorecard.
Results:
The final factors in the reduced Scorecard represented content pertaining to organizational and leadership support, program comprehensiveness, program integration, and incentives. All four implemented practices were found to have a strong, statistically significant effect on perceived effectiveness. Organizational and leadership support had the strongest effect (β = 0.56), followed by incentives (β = 0.23).
Conclusion:
The condensed version of the HERO Scorecard has the potential to be a promising tool for future research on the extent to which employers are adopting best practices in their health and well-being (HWB) initiatives.
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