Development and evaluation of an inter-company physical activity neighbourhood using municipal and regional structures - KomRüBer

An application-oriented approach to promoting physical activity in the inter-company setting was tested and promotion factors as well as barriers to implementation were identified. Overall, it became clear that this kind of collaborative support requires a corresponding personnel "management role" to ensure the sustainability of this approach. In this context, an activity and competence profile for future movement neighborhood managers could be elaborated. With a guideline "Supra-company physical activity promotion: conception, implementation and evaluation approaches" for actors in workplace health promotion, the project created an essential instrument for implementing collaborative support with the topic of physical activity in other regions as well. The guide provides practitioners with tools to create structures that support physical activity in inter-company networks and to implement measures to promote physical activity on site. With the social network analysis, a suitable methodological and conceptual approach was developed and tested. This resulted in the development of a digital tool that offers network managers the possibility to examine structures on the relationship level. The implementation phase was severely affected by the Corona pandemic, so that the derivation of findings at the behavioural prevention level (acceptance and use of the multi-component intervention) is only possible to a limited extent. Although digital offers were not mentioned by the employees in the participatory conception phase, they had to be integrated within the multi-component intervention due to the pandemic and proved to be a promising extension of the offers in the context of inter-company physical activity promotion.