Health Behaviors of Medical Personnel in Hospital Maternity Ward

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Health Behavior; Behavior
• Interventions: Behavioral: Improve health behaviors of medical personel

• Registration Number: NCT04138732
• Lead Sponsor: Hadassah Medical Organization

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to characterize the existing health behaviors and obstacles to healthy lifestyle among the medical staff in a maternity ward in order to develop a specifically-tailored intervention to help improve the health behaviors of hospital shift workers.The findings will be used to establish a community-based participatory health-promoting program in the ward, engaging the staff in its development and implementation.

Detailed Description

The purpose of this study is to characterize the existing health behaviors and obstacles to healthy lifestyle among the medical staff in a maternity ward in order to develop a specifically-tailored intervention to help improve the health behaviors of hospital shift workers. Shift-work has been associated with unhealthy lifestyles and increased risk of digestive disorders, heart conditions, various kinds of cancer, reproductive dysfunction, and mental conditions. Thus, the findings will be used to establish a community-based participatory health-promoting program in the ward, engaging the staff in its development and implementation. Community Based Participatory (CBP) approach will be used to build an evaluation and intervention. Baseline/needs assessment will be performed by mixed methods approach, combining in depth interviews with key personnel, focus groups and questionnaires that ask about demographics, physical activity and nutrition behaviors, stress, burnout, BMI, and cardiac risk factors.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-06-15
• Study First Submitted: 2017-08-27
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-10-23
• Study First Posted: 2019-10-24
• Primary Completion: 2020-12-31
• Study Completion: 2020-12-31
• Status Verified: 2022-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-06-16
• Last Update Posted: 2022-06-21

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 110

Inclusion Criteria

• Doctors, nurses, secretaries, and assistants

Exclusion Criteria

• None

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SEQUENTIAL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention treatment group	Improve health behaviors of medical personel	This arm will receive the intervention treatment aimed to help improve their health behaviors. Interventions will include nutrition workshops and personal consultation for employees at risk, environmental intervention that includes brief exercise session prior to weekly meetings, placement of sports equipment in the department, and pedometer program, and stress reduction workshops. Healthy options will be demarcated in the hospital cafeteria.
Control group	Improve health behaviors of medical personel	This arm will be the control group and not receive the intervention treatment aimed to help improve their health behaviors.Once completing their time as the control group, they will continue into another phase of the trial and receive the intervention treatment.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Cardiac risk factors	at the end of the 1 year treatment	Initially assessed by in depth interviews with key personnel and focus groups and then assessed by self report through questionnaires.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Physical activity minutes per week	at the end of the 1 year treatment	Initially assessed by in depth interviews with key personnel and focus groups and then assessed by self report through questionnaires.
BMI	at the end of 1 year of treatment	pre and post assesment of BMI via self reporting
Burnout	at the end of the 1 year treatment,	Initially assessed by in depth interviews with key personnel and focus groups and then assessed by self report through questionnaires.
Nutrition behaviors	at the end of the 1 year treatment	Initially assessed by in depth interviews with key personnel and focus groups and then assessed by self report through questionnaires assessing mediterrean diet adherence and western diet behavior

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Hadassah Medical Organization; 🇮🇱 Jerusalem, Israel