Health Behaviors of Medical Personnel in Hospital Maternity Ward

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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The purpose of this study is to characterize the existing health behaviors and obstacles to healthy lifestyle among the medical staff in a maternity ward in order to develop a specifically-tailored intervention to help improve the health behaviors of hospital shift workers.The findings will be used to establish a community-based participatory health-promoting program in the ward, engaging the staff in its development and implementation.

Detailed Description
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The purpose of this study is to characterize the existing health behaviors and obstacles to healthy lifestyle among the medical staff in a maternity ward in order to develop a specifically-tailored intervention to help improve the health behaviors of hospital shift workers. Shift-work has been associated with unhealthy lifestyles and increased risk of digestive disorders, heart conditions, various kinds of cancer, reproductive dysfunction, and mental conditions. Thus, the findings will be used to establish a community-based participatory health-promoting program in the ward, engaging the staff in its development and implementation. Community Based Participatory (CBP) approach will be used to build an evaluation and intervention. Baseline/needs assessment will be performed by mixed methods approach, combining in depth interviews with key personnel, focus groups and questionnaires that ask about demographics, physical activity and nutrition behaviors, stress, burnout, BMI, and cardiac risk factors.

Official Title
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Health Behaviors of Medical Personnel in Hospital Maternity Ward- Community Based Participatory Pilot

Conditions
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Behavior, Health Behavior

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Improve health behaviors of medical personel


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Doctors, nurses, secretaries, and assistants Exclusion Criteria: None
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: Sequential Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Intervention treatment group<br>This arm will receive the intervention treatment aimed to help improve their health behaviors. Interventions will include nutrition workshops and personal consultation for employees at risk, environmental intervention that includes brief exercise session prior to weekly meetings, placement of sports equipment in the department, and pedometer program, and stress reduction workshops. Healthy options will be demarcated in the hospital cafeteria. | Behavioral: Improve health behaviors of medical personel<br>* This arm will receive the intervention treatment aimed to help improve their health behaviors, as determined by employee-based steering committee. Interventions will target nutrition, physical activity and stress reduction<br>|
| Other: Control group<br>This arm will be the control group and not receive the intervention treatment aimed to help improve their health behaviors.Once completing their time as the control group, they will continue into another phase of the trial and receive the intervention treatment. | Behavioral: Improve health behaviors of medical personel<br>* This arm will receive the intervention treatment aimed to help improve their health behaviors, as determined by employee-based steering committee. Interventions will target nutrition, physical activity and stress reduction<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cardiac risk factors | Initially assessed by in depth interviews with key personnel and focus groups and then assessed by self report through questionnaires. | at the end of the 1 year treatment | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| BMI | pre and post assesment of BMI via self reporting | at the end of 1 year of treatment | 
| Burnout | Initially assessed by in depth interviews with key personnel and focus groups and then assessed by self report through questionnaires. | at the end of the 1 year treatment, | 
| Nutrition behaviors | Initially assessed by in depth interviews with key personnel and focus groups and then assessed by self report through questionnaires assessing mediterrean diet adherence and western diet behavior | at the end of the 1 year treatment | 
| Physical activity minutes per week | Initially assessed by in depth interviews with key personnel and focus groups and then assessed by self report through questionnaires. | at the end of the 1 year treatment | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Community, Health, Hospital