Organizational Approaches to TWH for Low-Income Workers

NCT04913168 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: TWH for Low Income Workers
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 197
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

There is an urgent need for evidence-based interventions to reduce risk of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and improve health and safety behaviors for low-income workers. Upstream interventions addressing these organizational characteristics and work experiences may be especially effective in preventing adverse health outcomes because they address underlying sources of elevated risk particularly important for low-wage workers. Low-wage workers have less schedule control, more irregular working hours, and shortened breaks due to time pressure to complete work tasks. The objective is to develop and test feasible intervention methods to modify the work organization and contribute to reductions in MSD risk, and improvements work-related well-being and job satisfaction. First, this study will identify characteristics of the work organization that can be feasibly modified through changes in management practices, based on interviews with food service managers and focus groups with workers. Second, the investigators will determine the feasibility and potential efficacy of an integrated TWH intervention in improving workers' ergonomic practices, MSD symptom, as well as in changing the work organization and environment related to work-related well-being and job satisfaction. The contribution of this study will be significant because it is expected to contribute to reducing disparities in these health outcomes by directly intervening on an underlying source of these disparities.

Conditions

Work-related Injury

Keywords

worker health; occupational safety and health

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Change in Reduction in Pain and Injuries Worker Survey

  Nordic Scale

  13 months

• Change in Improvements in Front Line Worker Turnover Intention Worker Survey

  Turnover Intention Scale

  13 months

• Change in Improvement in Front Line Worker Well Being Worker Survey

  WHO Wellbeing Scale

  13 months

Study Arms (2)

Control Group

EXPERIMENTAL

Control Group; no intervention

Other: Front Line Worker Pilot Project

Intervention Group

EXPERIMENTAL

Intervention Group; receives 13 month intervention

Other: Front Line Worker Pilot Project

Interventions

Front Line Worker Pilot Project OTHER

13-month intervention targeting workplace policies and programs focused on changes to safety and ergonomics, job enrichment, and work intensity for front line food service workers practices,

Control Group; Intervention Group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• All front line workers including chefs, cooks, food preparers, servers, dishwashers, and cashiers

You may not qualify if:

• Front Line workers with supervisory responsibilities

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH): lead

Study Sites (1)

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, United States

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Sorensen G, Peters SE, Nielsen K, Stelson E, Wallace LM, Burke L, Nagler EM, Roodbari H, Karapanos M, Wagner GR. Implementation of an organizational intervention to improve low-wage food service workers' safety, health and wellbeing: findings from the Workplace Organizational Health Study. BMC Public Health. 2021 Oct 16;21(1):1869. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-11937-9.

  PMID: 34656090 DERIVED

Study Officials

• Glorian Sorensen, PhD

  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 25, 2021
• First Posted: June 4, 2021
• Study Start: August 1, 2017
• Primary Completion: March 13, 2020
• Study Completion: March 13, 2020
• Last Updated: April 6, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)