National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Ergonomics. 2012;55(2):256-64. doi: 10.1080/00140139.2011.592651. Epub 2011 Aug 17.
Worksite health promotion is seldom offered to workers who are low-educated and multi-ethnic, possibly due to an assumption that they are more reluctant to participate. Furthermore, little has been done to promote health at female-dominated workplaces. The main aim of this study was to investigate differences in participation among immigrant and Danish cleaners throughout a 1-year randomised controlled study tailored to cleaners and carried out in predominantly female workplaces. No significant differences in ethnicity were found in consent and participation throughout the 1-year intervention. Dropout was equally distributed among Danish and immigrant cleaners. This study indicates that a worksite health promotion intervention among a female-dominated, high-risk occupation such as cleaning can be equally appealing for Danes and immigrants.
This study provides insight about participation of Danish and immigrant cleaners in a worksite health promotion intervention in a predominantly female occupation. For attaining high participation and low dropout in future worksite health promotion interventions among cleaners, the intervention ought to not only target the ethnic background of the workers, but also to be specifically tailored to the job group.
工作场所健康促进很少提供给低教育程度和多种族的工人，这可能是因为人们认为他们更不愿意参与。此外，很少有针对女性主导工作场所的健康促进措施。本研究的主要目的是调查在为期一年的针对清洁工的随机对照研究中，移民和丹麦清洁工在参与方面的差异，该研究在以女性为主导的工作场所进行。在为期一年的干预过程中，在同意和参与方面，移民和丹麦清洁工在民族方面没有显著差异。丹麦和移民清洁工的辍学率分布均匀。本研究表明，在女性主导的高风险职业（如清洁）中进行工作场所健康促进干预，对丹麦人和移民同样具有吸引力。
本研究提供了有关丹麦和移民清洁工参与以女性为主导职业的工作场所健康促进干预的信息。为了在未来的清洁工工作场所健康促进干预中实现高参与率和低辍学率，干预措施不仅要针对工人的种族背景，还要针对特定的工作群体进行量身定制。
