Can Work be Organized to Become More Health Promoting for Employees in Home Care Services?
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 131
- 试验地点
- 11
- 主要终点
- Between group changes in musculoskeletal pain in the neck and shoulder from pre to post measurement
研究概览
简要总结
This is a two-group, cluster randomized controlled trial designed to assess a health promoting intervention in the home care sector. The intervention aims to evenly distribute the patients requiring high levels of demanding care across all workers on the units, which may lower the working strain and thus the incidence of musculoskeletal pain. The two groups in the study will be a control group and an intervention group. The intervention will last for approximately 4 months.
详细描述
This is a two-group cluster randomized controlled trial to compare an organizational intervention to control. The home care units will be treated as clusters to avoid contamination within units.
Control group: No intervention, their work will continue as usual without any instructions from researchers.
Intervention group: The intervention will consist of the operational managers distributing the physically strenuous shifts evenly between the workers in each home care unit. This will be achieved using a tool developed in Microsoft Excel which gives an overview over how much strain we expect each shift to have and gives a score on how well the operational manager distributes the strain between employees.
The intervention will last for approximately 4 months, depending on duration of pre and post measurements.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
盲法说明
No masking will be possible as the home care units will have an integral part in applying the intervention. The investigators will need to have control over the units in intervention arm as they may need to assist in the early stages of intervention.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Home care worker in one of the included home care units in Trondheim municipality.
- •More than or equal to 50% working position at the home care unit.
排除标准
- •Physically incapable of performing day to day tasks.
- •Any illness during the measurement week
- •Pregnancy
结局指标
主要结局
Between group changes in musculoskeletal pain in the neck and shoulder from pre to post measurement
时间窗: 7 days during baseline measurements, 7 days during post measurements
The workers will rate their musculoskeletal pain in the neck and shoulder area after each working day for a week. The measurement will be repeated at the end of the intervention to assess any changes in the experience of musculoskeletal pain. The question assessing musculoskeletal pain in shoulder and neck area is phrased as "How much pain did you have in your shoulder/neck at the end of this working day?" (Translated from Norwegian).
in musculoskeletal pain in the lower back from pre to post measurement
时间窗: 7 days during baseline measurements, 7 days during post measurements
The workers will rate their musculoskeletal pain in the lower back after each working day for one week. The measurement will be repeated at the end of the intervention to assess any changes in the experience of musculoskeletal pain. The question assessing musculoskeletal pain in the lower back area is phrased as "how much pain did you have in your lower back at the end of the working day?" (Translated from Norwegian).
次要结局
- Between group changes in the composition of time spent standing, arms elevated and trunk inclined(7 days during baseline measurements, 7 days during post measurements)
- Between group changes in fatigue at end of shift(7 days during baseline measurements, 7 days during post measurements)