Pain, Safety Climate, Worker Health, Work Injury
Conditions
Brief summary
All the Right Moves for Subcontractors aims to improve safety, health and well-being, through the development of a communication infrastructure with supplemental tools where construction workers and company mangers (project, operations and safety) work together to collaboratively identify problems and strategies to improve their conditions of work. The intervention is grounded in the key characteristics of integrated organizational interventions to improve workers' health safety and well-being detailed in Harvard Center for Work, Health and Well-being's Implementation Guidelines (McLellan et al, 2016). The intervention involves a cyclical approach through which the research team facilitate a participatory process to identify workers' health concerns, prioritize these concerns, use an action planning process to identify and operationalize solutions, and develop a company-specific evaluation plan to measure change. We will evaluate this program by measuring safety climate, health climate, pain and injury and health behaviors.
Interventions
OTHERAll the Right Moves for Subcontractors
All the Right Moves for Subcontractors aims to improve safety, health and wellbeing, through the development of a communication infrastructure with supplemental tools where construction workers and company mangers work together to collaboratively identify problems and strategies to improve their conditions of work. The intervention is grounded in the key characteristics of integrated organizational interventions to improve workers' health safety and wellbeing detailed in Harvard Center for Work, Health and Wellbeing's Implementation Guidelines (McLellan et al, 2016). The intervention involves a cyclical approach through which the research team facilitate a participatory process to identify workers' health concerns, prioritize these concerns, use an action planning process to identify and operationalize solutions, and develop a company-specific evaluation plan to measure change.
Sponsors
Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* All workers employed by the recruited contractors at the eligible worksites
Exclusion criteria
* Companies with less than 5 workers
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Worker Outcomes: Injury assessed by the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire | Change from Baseline at 2 months, 4 months, and 6 months | NMQ has been applied to a wide range of occupational groups to evaluate musculoskeletal problems Scale:0-1 0:minimum 1:maximum |
| Worker Outcomes: Pain assessed by the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire | Change from Baseline at 2 months, 4 months, and 6 months | NMQ has been applied to a wide range of occupational groups to evaluate musculoskeletal problems Scale:0-1 0:minimum 1:maximum |
| Enterprise Outcomes: Work Productivity and Activity Impairment assessed by Work Productivity and Activity Impairment Questionnaire (WPAI) | Change from Baseline at 2 months, 4 months, and 6 months | Work Productivity and Activity Impairment Questionnaire (WPAI) measures impairment due to the specified problem and all health problems. Scale:0-1 0:minimum 1:maximum |
| Enterprise Outcomes: Health Climate assessed by questions modified from safety climate scale for construction workers | Change from Baseline at 2 months, 4 months, and 6 months | Questions adapted from safety climate scale: Jorgensen, E., Sokas, R. K., Nickels, L., Gao, W., & Gittleman, J. L. (2007). An English/Spanish safety climate scale for construction workers. American journal of industrial medicine, 50(6), 438-442. Scale:0-1 0:minimum 1:maximum |
| Enterprise Outcomes: Safety Climate assessed by using the validated scale: An English/Spanish safety climate scale for construction workers. | Change from Baseline at 2 months, 4 months, and 6 months | Jorgensen, E., Sokas, R. K., Nickels, L., Gao, W., & Gittleman, J. L. (2007). An English/Spanish safety climate scale for construction workers. American journal of industrial medicine, 50(6), 438-442. Scale:0-1 0:minimum 1:maximum |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Psychosocial Work Environment: Supervisor Support assessed by Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ), a validated scale. | Change from Baseline at 2 months, 4 months, and 6 months | Uses questions from the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ), a validated scale by Karasek\_et\_al\_\_1998 Scale:0-1 0:minimum 1:maximum |
| Worker Health Behaviors: Diet | Change from Baseline at 2 months, 4 months, and 6 months | PrimeScreen Questionnaire; Rifas-Shiman SL, Willett WC, Lobb R, Kotch J, Dart C, Gillman MW. PrimeScreen, a brief dietary screening tool: reproducibility and comparability with both a longer food frequency questionnaire and biomarkers. Public Health Nutr. 2001 Apr;4(2):249-54 Scale: 0-4 0:minimum 4:maximum |
| Psychosocial Work Environment: Communication assessed by Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ), a validated scale. | Change from Baseline at 2 months, 4 months, and 6 months | Uses questions from the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ), a validated scale by Karasek\_et\_al\_\_1998 Scale:0-1 0:minimum 1:maximum |
| Worker Health Behaviors: Leisure Physical Activity | Change from Baseline at 2 months, 4 months, and 6 months | International Physical Activity Questionnaire (Short Form)http://uacc.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/ipaq\_english\_telephone\_short.pdf Scale: 0-7 days 0=minimum 7=maximum |
| Worker Health Behaviors: Alcohol Use assessed by using validated questions from NIAAA | Change from Baseline at 2 months, 4 months, and 6 months | National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Scale:0-9 0:minimum 9:maximum https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/research/guidelines-and-resources/recommended-alcohol-questions |
| Worker Health Behaviors: Tobacco Use assessed by modifying questions from the National Adult Tobacco Survey (NATS) | Change from Baseline at 2 months, 4 months, and 6 months | Dichotomous questions adapted from the National Adult Tobacco Survey (NATS) Scale:0-2 0:minimum 2:maximum |
| Psychosocial Work Environment: Co-worker Support assessed by assessed by Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ), a validated scale. | Change from Baseline at 2 months, 4 months, and 6 months | Uses questions from the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ), a validated scale by Karasek\_et\_al\_\_1998 Scale:0-1 0:minimum 1:maximum |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed