Thompson Sanna J, Rew Lynn
Am J Health Promot. 2015 May-Jun;29(5):339-41. doi: 10.4278/ajhp.130830-ARB-459. Epub 2014 Mar 26.
An employee wellness program was evaluated to assess changes in germ transmission, absenteeism, and cost of infection-related illness among office-based employees.
One-group pretest-posttest design, with intervention delivered for 90 days and measurement conducted over 1 year.
Employees of a large office space in Georgia.
One thousand six hundred forty-five employees.
The Healthy Workplace Project is a 90-day wellness program aimed to increase health and productivity of employees through educational and engagement activities focusing on improving awareness, recognizing infection-related illnesses, and reducing the spread of germs in the workplace.
Three types of data were collected: (1) bacterial audits through use of adenosine triphosphate monitoring of various work spaces; (2) self-report absenteeism data using the World Health Organization's Health and Work Performance Questionnaire; and (3) participant employees' medical claims/costs of infection-related minor illnesses.
Frequencies and bacterial audit data; Wilcoxon signed ranks tests to determine changes in rates on absenteeism and health care costs.
Bacterial audits demonstrated a reduction in contamination levels of 33% across all measured spaces. Absenteeism rates were reduced by 13%. Medical service utilization costs were not significantly reduced for individual employees over the project year.
Educational strategies and individual monitoring of germ transmission appears effective in improving employees' health and decreasing absenteeism.
对一项员工健康计划进行评估，以评估办公室员工在病菌传播、缺勤率以及感染相关疾病成本方面的变化。
单组前后测设计，干预为期90天，测量持续1年。
佐治亚州一个大型办公场所的员工。
1645名员工。
“健康工作场所项目”是一项为期90天的健康计划，旨在通过开展教育和参与活动，提高员工的健康水平和工作效率，这些活动聚焦于提高意识、识别感染相关疾病以及减少工作场所病菌传播。
收集了三种类型的数据：（1）通过对各个工作空间进行三磷酸腺苷监测进行细菌审计；（2）使用世界卫生组织的《健康与工作绩效问卷》收集自我报告的缺勤数据；（3）参与项目的员工感染相关轻症的医疗理赔/费用。
频率分析和细菌审计数据；采用Wilcoxon符号秩检验来确定缺勤率和医疗费用的变化。
细菌审计表明，所有测量空间的污染水平降低了33%。缺勤率降低了13%。在项目年度内，单个员工的医疗服务使用成本没有显著降低。
教育策略和对病菌传播的个体监测似乎在改善员工健康和减少缺勤方面有效。
