The Workplace Support for Health Scale: Reliability and Validity of a Brief Scale to Measure Employee Perceptions of Wellness.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To examine the reliability and validity of a brief measure (the Workplace Support for Health [WSH] scale) to assess employees' perceived support for a healthy lifestyle.

Design

Repeated cross-sectional surveys.

Setting

We collected employer- and employee-level survey data from small, low-wage workplaces in King County, WA enrolled in a randomized controlled trial.

Sample

We analyzed data from 68 workplaces that had 2,820 and 2,640 employees complete surveys at baseline and 15 months, respectively.

Measures

The WSH scale consisted of five items. To assess validity, we examined associations between the WSH scale and employer implementation of evidence-based interventions for health promotion, employee self-rated health, and job satisfaction.

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SUBMITTER: Kava CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7870498 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature