Designing industrial work to be 'just right' to promote health - a study protocol for a goldilocks work intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Goldilocks Work Principle expresses that productive work should be designed to promote workers' health. We recently showed that it is feasible to develop and implement modifications to productive work that change physical behaviors (i.e. sitting, standing and being active) in a direction that may promote health among industrial workers. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to conduct a cluster randomised controlled trial investigating health effects of implementing the Goldilocks Work intervention among industrial workers.

Methods

Our implementation plan consists of educating work teams, organizing implementation meetings, and providing feedback to workers. Three meetings with a preselected local workplace group will be scheduled. The first meeting educa

SUBMITTER: Lerche AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8867863 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature