Worksite Health Promotion: Assessment of Health Risks with Feedback (AHRF) to Change Employees’ Health Behaviors

Studies Included in the Evidence Review

 

Abrams DB, Boutwell WB, Grizzle J, Heimendinger J, Sorensen G, Varnes J. Cancer control at the workplace: the working well trial. Preventive Medicine 1994;23:15-27.

Anderson J, Dusenbury L. Worksite cholesterol and nutrition: an intervention project in Colorado. American Association of Occupational Health Nurses Journal 1999;47: 99-106.

Barrere CCP. Hospital employee cholesterol screening: modification of dietary behavior. Amercian Association of Occupational Health Nurses Journal 1994;42:261-9.

Blair SN, Piserchia PV, Wilbur CS, Crowder JH. A public health intervention model for work-site health promotion. Impact on exercise and physical fitness in a health promotion plan after 24 months. Journal of the American Medical Association 1986; 255:921-6.

Burton WN, McCalister KT, Chen CY, Edington DW. The association of health status, worksite fitness center participation, and two measures of productivity. Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine 2005;47:343-51.

Burton WN, Chen CY, Conti DJ, Schultz AB, Edington DW. The association between health risk change and presenteeism change. Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine 2006;48:252-63.

Dunton S, Perkins DD, Zopf KJ. The impact of worksite-based health risk appraisal programs on observed safety belt use. Health Education Research 1990;5:207-16.

Edye BV, Mandryk JA, Frommer MS, Healey S, Ferguson DA. Evaluation of a worksite programme for the modification of cardiovascular risk factors. Medical Journal of Australia 1989;150:574-81.

Fitzgerald ST, Gibbens S, Agnew J. Evaluation of referral completion after a workplace cholesterol screening program. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 1991;7:335-40.

Fries JF, Fries ST, Parcell CL, Harrington H. Health risk changes with a low-cost individualized health promotion program: effects at up to 30 months. American Journal of Health Promotion 1992;6:364-71.

Fries JF, Harrington H, Edwards R, Kent LA, Richardson N. Randomized controlled trial of cost reductions from a health education program: the California Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) study. American Journal of Health Promotion 1994;8:216-56.

Frommer MS, Mandryk JA, Edye BV, Healey S, Berry G, Ferguson DA. A randomised controlled trial of counseling in a workplace setting for coronary heart disease risk factor modification: effects on blood pressure. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health 1990;4:25-33.

Gemson DH, Sloan RP. Efficacy of computerized health risk appraisal as part of a periodic health examination at the worksite. American Journal of Health Promotion 1995;9:462-6.

Gomel M, Oldenburg B, Simpson JM. Work-site cardiovascular risk reduction: a randomized trial of health risk assessment, education, counseling, and incentives. American Journal of Public Health 1993;83:1231-8.

Gomel MK, Oldenburg B, Simpson JM, Chilvers M, Owen N. Composite cardiovascular risk outcomes of a work-site intervention trial. American Journal of Public Health 1997;87:673-6.

Hagihara A, Kusaka Y, Morimoto K, Tamura T, Matsuura Y. Health risk appraisal (HRA) and its educational effect on bank employees. Industrial Health 1992;30:61-4.

Hanlon P, Carey L, Tannahill C, Kelly M, Gilmour H, Tannahill A, McEwen J. Behaviour change following a workplace health check: how much change occurs and who changes? Health Promotion International 1998;13:131-9.

Hanlon P, McEwen J, Carey L, Gilmour H, Tannahill C, Tannahill A, Kelly M. Health checks and coronary risk: further evidence from a randomised controlled trial. British Medical Journal 1995;311:1609-13.

Hartman TJ, Himes JH, McCarthy PR, Kushi LH. Effects of a low-fat, worksite intervention on blood lipids and lipoproteins. Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine 1995;37:690-6.

Hartman TJ, McCarthy PR, Himes JH. Use of eating-pattern messages to evaluate changes in eating behaviors in a worksite cholesterol education program. Journal of the American Dietetic Association 1993;93:1119-23.

Heimendinger J, Feng Z, Emmons K, Stoddard A, Kinne S, Biener L et al. The Working Well trial: baseline dietary and smoking behaviors of employees and related worksite characteristics. Preventive Medicine 1995;24:180-93.

Hyner GC, Petri CJ, Melby CL, Duda JL, Huddy DC. The effects of different health risk appraisal feedback on health-related behaviors in a worksite population. Health Education Research 1987;2:161-4.

Kellerman ST, Felts WM, Chenier TC. The impact on factory workers of health risk appraisal and counseling in health promotion. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 1992;8:37-42.

Maes S, Verhoeven C, Kittel F, Scholten H. Effects of a Dutch work-site wellness-health program: the Brabantia Project. American Journal of Public Health 1998;88: 1037-41.

McCarthy P. Content of an effective worksite cholesterol education program. Nutrition Update 1991;1:1-3.

Nilsson PM, Klasson EB, Nyberg P. Life-style intervention at the worksite - reduction of cardiovascular risk factors in a randomized study. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health 2001;27:57-62.

Oldenburg B, Owen N, Parle M, Gomel M. An economic evaluation of four work site based cardiovascular risk factor interventions. Health Education Quarterly 1995;22:9-19.

Purath J, Miller AM, McCabe G, Wilbur J. A brief intervention to increase physical activity in sedentary working women. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research 2004;36:76-91.

Puska P, Niemensivu H, Puhakka P, Alhainen L, Koskela K, Moisio S et al. Results of a one-year worksite and mass media based intervention on health behaviour and chronic disease risk factors. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health 1988;16:241-50.

Richmond R, Kehoe L, Heather N, Wodak A. Evaluation of a workplace brief intervention for excessive alcohol consumption: the workscreen project. Preventive Medicine 2000;30:51-63.

Richmond RL, Kehoe L, Hailstone S, Wodak A, Uebel-Yan M. Quantitative and qualitative evaluations of brief interventions to change excessive drinking, smoking and stress in the police force. Addiction 1999;94:1509-21.

Rodnick JE. Health behavior changes associated with health hazard appraisal counseling in an occupational setting. Preventive Medicine 1982;11:583-94.

Serxner SA, Gold DB, Bultman KK. The impact of behavioral health risks on worker absenteeism. Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine 2001;43:347-54.

Shi L. Impact of increasing intensity of health promotion intervention on risk reduction. Evaluation & the Health Professions 1992;15:3-25.

Shi L. Health promotion, medical care use, and costs in a sample of worksite employees. Evaluation Review 1993;17:475-87.

Shipley RH, Orleans T, Wilbur CS, Piserchia PV, McFadden DW. Effect of the Hohnson & Johnson Live for Life Program on employee smoking. Preventive Medicine 1988;12:25-34.

Sorensen G, Stoddard AM, LaMontagne AD, Emmons K, Hunt MK, Youngstrom R, et al. A comprehensive worksite cancer prevention intervention: behavior change results from a randomized controlled trial (United States). Cancer Causes Control 2002;13:493-502.

Stonecipher LJ, Hyner GC. Health practices before and after a work-site health screening: differences among subpopulations of employees. Journal of Occupational Medicine 1993;35:297-306.

Stonecipher LJ, Hyner GC. The effects of a comprehensive health risk appraisal, basic screening, and interpretation session on employee health practices: differences between participants and nonparticipants. American Journal of Health Promotion 1993;7:167-9.

Szymanski L, Pate RR, Dowda M, Blair SN, Howe HG, Jr., Parker G, et al. A comparison of questionnaire and physiological data in predicting future chronic disease risk factor status in an employee population. American Journal of Health Promotion 1991;5:298-304.

Tilley BC, Glanz K, Kristal AR, Hirst K, Li S, Vernon SW, et al. Nutrition intervention for high-risk auto workers: results of the Next Step Trial. Preventive Medicine 1999;28:284-92.

Tilley BC, Vernon SW, Glanz K, Myers R, Sanders K, Lu M, et al. Worksite cancer screening and nutrition intervention for high-risk auto workers: design and baseline findings of the Next Step Trial. Preventive Medicine 1997;26:227-35.

Tilley BC, Vernon SW, Myers R, Glanz K, Lu M, Hirst K, et al. The Next Step Trial: impact of a worksite colorectal cancer screening promotion program. Preventive Medicine 1999;27:276-83.

Williams A, Mason A, Wold J. Cultural sensitivity and day care workers: examination of a worksite based cardiovascular disease prevention project. Amercian Association of Occupational Health Nurses Journal 2001;49:35-43.

Williams A, Wold J. Nurses, cholesterol, and small work sites: innovative community intervention comparisons. Family & Community Health 2000;23:59-75.