Institute for Health and Productivity Studies at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and IBM Watson Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Am J Health Promot. 2020 May;34(4):440-444. doi: 10.1177/0890117120906664. Epub 2020 Feb 20.
Recently, several high-profile randomized clinical trials conducted with employees at the University of Illinois and BJ's Wholesale Club have questioned the value of workplace health and well-being programs. This commentary focuses on the latest research published in by authors Jones, Molitor, and Reif who evaluated the iThrive wellness program. The commentary challenges the study's main finding that wellness programs (in general) do not work. Several perspectives are explored including whether the evaluated programs are well-designed, sufficiently potent, and appropriate candidates for randomized trials. The article also asks what role employers can or should play in improving the health and well-being of Americans given recent troubling statistics showing a decline in life expectancy and an increase in health risks.
最近，伊利诺伊大学和 BJ's Wholesale Club 的员工参与的几项备受瞩目的随机临床试验对工作场所健康和福利计划的价值提出了质疑。这篇评论的重点是作者琼斯、莫利托和赖夫在发表的最新研究，他们评估了 iThrive 健康计划。该评论质疑了该研究的主要发现，即健康计划（总体而言）不起作用。探讨了几个观点，包括评估的计划是否设计良好、足够有效以及是否适合进行随机试验。该文章还询问了鉴于最近显示预期寿命下降和健康风险增加的令人担忧的统计数据，雇主在改善美国人民的健康和福祉方面可以或应该发挥什么作用。
