Work Factors

This small project is focused on the effects of work organization, workplace physical and psychosocial factors, and organizational health culture as predictors of changes in body weight and health behaviors including healthy eating and physical activity. Data from a large, multi-level group-randomized trial of a workplace weight loss intervention in low-income health care workers (NIDDK R01 DK103760) will be used to examine the effects of work-related factors outside the scope of the original proposal. Initial analyses have described the associations of organizational health climate, supervisory support, and job satisfaction on the implementation success of a worker-driven participatory intervention, finding that results at one year showed statistically significant improvements in reported organizational health climate, supervisor support, and job satisfaction in workgroups with better-functioning participatory teams. Study findings will offer improved approaches to scalable workplace-based health behavior change that take into account organizational polices, programs, and practices as well as individual factors.