Act Healthy! A Controlled Trial of Worksite Health Promotion

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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The purpose of this project is to determine if a worksite wellness intervention using a theoretically-based self-management model increases confidence for carrying out healthy behaviors and improves health practices of participating employees. The research questions are: 1) does the intervention produce between group differences in behavior self-efficacy and actual health behaviors, 2) are self-efficacy and performance of health behaviors related, and 3) do changes in self-efficacy result in changes in behavior.

Detailed Description
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The purpose of this project is to see if a six-week education program called Act Healthy! led by trained volunteers from the UM T.E. Atkins Wellness Program is able to help people who take the classes improve their confidence in their ability to choose good health behaviors and carry out new behaviors. The project will use the Stanford University Self-management education model and train volunteers to be teachers. People who work on the MU campus will be recruited to take a 50-minute class once a week for six weeks. Class members will complete questionnaires before and after the class and again three months later that ask about their health behaviors and confidence to perform health behaviors. This information will be analyzed to determine if the classes were effective in helping people act in healthier ways.

Official Title
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Act Healthy! A Controlled Trial of Worksite Health Promotion

Conditions
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Healthy

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Act Healthy!
* Behavioral: Delayed treatment control


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: full-time employee of the University of Missouri Exclusion Criteria: inability to read and speak in English

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 21 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Prevention
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment
Masking: Single


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Act Healthy!<br>Immediate treatment group of six-weeks of classes in self-management training for healthy behaviors | Behavioral: Act Healthy!<br>* Six-week class of 50 minute sessions of self-management training for health behaviors<br>* Other names: behavior change;|
| Active Comparator: Delayed treatment control<br>Delayed self-management training group - begins following completion of the experimental group training | Behavioral: Act Healthy!<br>* Six-week class of 50 minute sessions of self-management training for health behaviors<br>* Other names: behavior change;Behavioral: Delayed treatment control<br>* Delayed self-management training group - begins following completion of the experimental group training<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Self-report of health behaviors |  | pre-, post intervention; 3-month follow up | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| self-efficacy for health behaviors |  | pre- and post-intervention; 3-month follow up | 
| Stages of change scale |  | pre- and post-intervention; 3-month follow up | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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health promotion, prevention, worksite wellness, behavior change, healthy volunteers