Activating Worksites to Implement Policy, Systems, and Environmental Changes: Outcomes and Overcoming Challenges
Melanie Seiler1, Veronica Crosier1, James Vance2
1Active Southern West Virginia, Beckley, WV, USA.
Purpose:
Although workplaces are prime settings for health promotion, little is known about the implementation of policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) changes focused on chronic disease. PSEs have broader reach and are more sustainable than individual level strategies.
Design:
non-experimental, one group design with no control.Setting: West Virginia, a state with significant chronic disease-related health disparities.
Subjects:
Convenience sample of 27 workplaces, representing 6 industry types.
Intervention:
$1000 in micro funding awarded to workplaces to participate in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Work@Health®/ScoreCard, and implement PSEs.
Measures:
ScoreCard baseline results; post project survey results.
Analysis:
Descriptive analysis of ScoreCard; survey responses coded into PSE and I (individual level strategies) categories; frequencies were calculated.
Results:
63% of the workplaces were very small (1-100 employees). Chronic disease-related organizational practices (ScoreCard) were minimal: nutrition (5/24), physical activity (7/22), diabetes (5/15), cholesterol (4/13), and high blood pressure (6/16). Workplaces reported a total of 95 PSEs: P-8, S-55, and E-32.
Conclusion:
Policy change was the least frequently attempted and reported PSE strategy. More research with a stronger study design is needed to determine if (1) baseline organizational practices (Scorecard scores) improve, (2) PSEs (especially P) can be implemented without micro funding/TA, (3) workplace-type is related to use of the funds/TA, and (4) enacting PSE changes leads to healthier employees.
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