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Trial reportBMC public health2012

Effectiveness of an intervention at construction worksites on work engagement, social support, physical workload, and need for recovery: results from a cluster randomized controlled trial.

Karen M Oude Hengel, Birgitte M Blatter, Catelijne I Joling, Allard J van der Beek, Paulien M Bongers

Open access · goldAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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In one paragraph

Trial report in BMC public health, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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25citing papers in PubMed, 9 pooled it
7.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 66 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of a Total Worker HealthInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Karen M Oude HengelNetherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO, P,O, Box 718, Hoofddorp, AS 2130, The Netherlands. karen.oudehengel@tno.nl.
Birgitte M Blatter
Catelijne I Joling
Allard J van der Beek
Paulien M Bongers
Amsterdam UMC Location VUmc · NLEMGO Institute for Health and Care Research · NLNetherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundTo prolong sustainable healthy working lives of construction workers, a worksite prevention program was developed which aimed to improve the health and work ability of construction workers. The aim of the current study was to investigate the effectiveness of this program on social support at work, work engagement, physical workload and need for recovery.

methodsFifteen departments from six construction companies participated in this cluster randomized controlled trial; 8 departments (n=171 workers) were randomized to an intervention group and 7 departments (n=122 workers) to a control group. The intervention consisted of two individual training sessions of a physical therapist to lower the physical workload, a Rest-Break tool to improve the balance between work and recovery, and two empowerment training sessions to increase the influence of the construction workers at the worksite. Data on work engagement, social support at work, physical workload, and need for recovery were collected at baseline, and at three, six and 12 months after the start of the intervention using questionnaires.

resultsNo differences between the intervention and control group were found for work engagement, social support at work, and need for recovery. At 6 months follow-up, the control group reported a small but statistically significant reduction of physical workload.

conclusionThe intervention neither improved social support nor work engagement, nor was it effective in reducing the physical workload and need for recovery among construction workers.

trial registrationNTR1278.

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Construction IndustryInterprofessional RelationsNeeds AssessmentOccupational HealthSocial SupportAdultFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansMaleMiddle AgedProgram EvaluationSurveys and QuestionnairesWorkloadWorkplace

Identifiers

PMID23171354
PMCPMC3534539
OpenAlexW2096487457

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