Can home care work be organized to promote musculoskeletal health for workers? Study protocol for the Norwegian GoldiCare cluster randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Home care workers perform physically strenuous tasks, in particular when handling patients with high care demands. Thus, musculoskeletal pain and sick leave is greater in this group than in the general population. To ease these issues, we will implement a Goldilocks Work intervention (GoldiCare), redistributing schedules between workers to achieve a "just right" weekly structure of physical work that can promote health. This protocol paper describes the content, design, implementation and evaluation of the cluster randomized controlled trial of the GoldiCare intervention in home care.

Methods

The cluster randomized controlled trial is a 16-week workplace organizational intervention implemented through operations managers at the home care units. The operations mana

SUBMITTER: Lohne FK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9727949 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature