Workplace health promotion at a health resort – Bad Birnbach as provider of a health promotion intervention for the workplace
Description
The project aimed to develop and apply a health promotion intervention for small and medium-sized enterprises and to study its health-promoting effects.
In the initial phase of the project, an online survey (fall 2017) was used to determine the specific needs of the local companies and their employees for workplace health promotion. The results of the survey and the findings from a systematic literature review on the effectiveness and content of health promotion measures provided the basis for a new health promotion program to be developed, which incorporated the local remedy of the spa town of Bad Birnbach and can be used as a component for health promotion in SMEs.
In the spring of 2018, companies in the area were contacted and invited to have their employees participate in the newly developed BGF program as part of a study. The study participants went through the various health-promoting units of the health-promoting program over a period of 12 months.
The effectiveness of the BGF program was investigated in the two-arm controlled intervention study with a total of six data collection points (pre/post intervention and after three, six, 11 and 16 months). Allocation to study groups based on propensity score matching‡.
Cooperation partner
- Industrie- und Handelskammer (IHK) Niederbayern
- Handwerkskammer (HWK) Niederbayern-Oberpfalz
- Kurmittelhaus Rottal Terme
- Markt Bad Birnbach
Duration
July 2017 to June 2020
Funding
Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Gesundheit und Pflege (StMGP)
Contact
Dr. Sandra Kus (MPH postgrad.)
skus@ibe.med.uni-muenchen.de
‡Austin, P. C. (2011). "An Introduction to Propensity Score Methods for Reducing the Effects of Confounding in Observational Studies." Multivariate Behavioral Research 46(3): 399-424.