Evaluation of a policy intervention to promote the health and wellbeing of workers in small and medium sized enterprises - a cluster randomised controlled trial

Thrive at Work Wellbeing Programme Collaboration; Laura Kudrna; Samuel Watson

doi:10.1186/s12889-019-6582-y

Evaluation of a policy intervention to promote the health and wellbeing of workers in small and medium sized enterprises - a cluster randomised controlled trial

Thrive at Work Wellbeing Programme Collaboration, Laura Kudrna, Samuel Watson

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BACKGROUND: Good employee health and wellbeing is of key importance to employers and the economy. The workplace can serve as a setting for health and wellbeing promotion. Financial incentives may encourage employers to invest in employee health and wellbeing. The aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of health and wellbeing financial incentives offered to small medium enterprises in the West Midlands, UK.

METHODS: A cluster randomised controlled trial was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a workplace health and wellbeing initiative with or without monetary incentives. We will evaluate the effectiveness of the financial incentive using a mixed methods evaluation approach.

DISCUSSION: The trial will help establish whether small-medium enterprises will improve their health and wellbeing offer and achieve higher employee awareness and participation in the offer in response to a monetary wellbeing incentive.

TRIAL REGISTRATION: AEARCTR-0003420 , registration date: 17.10.2018, retrospectively registered.

Original language	English
Number of pages	13
Journal	BMC Public Health
Volume	19
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6582-y
Publication status	Published - 2 May 2019

Keywords

Capacity Building/organization & administration
Health Promotion/organization & administration
Humans
Inservice Training/organization & administration
Motivation
Occupational Health/statistics & numerical data
Occupational Health Services/organization & administration
Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
Workplace/organization & administration

UN SDGs

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