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SynthesisBMC public health2014

Effects of organisational-level interventions at work on employees' health: a systematic review.

Diego Montano, Hanno Hoven, Johannes Siegrist

Registry-linked trialAbstract readSystematic Review
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Synthesis in BMC public health, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05660330 (Assessing the Effectiveness of a Holistic Semi-tailormade Well-being Intervention at Work), which is not on this map. Cited by 115 papers, 19 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT05660330 naunknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Assessing the Effectiveness of a Holistic Semi-tailormade Well-being Intervention at Work: Study Protocol of a Partially Randomized Preference Trial Design

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity GhentRan2022 to 2024Enrolled2,000ConditionsWell-being at WorkArmsHolistic semi-tailormade well-being intervention
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

115 citing papers in PubMed, 19 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  14. Evidence of Workplace Interventions-A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019
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  15. Effectiveness of Interventions to Promote Sustainable Employability: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Diego MontanoSenior Professorship "Work Stress Research", Faculty of Medicine, Duesseldorf University, Duesseldorf, Germany. diego.montano@med.uni-duesseldorf.de.
Hanno Hoven
Johannes Siegrist

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundOrganisational-level workplace interventions are thought to produce more sustainable effects on the health of employees than interventions targeting individual behaviours. However, scientific evidence from intervention studies does not fully support this notion. It is therefore important to explore conditions of positive health effects by systematically reviewing available studies. We set out to evaluate the effectiveness of 39 health-related intervention studies targeting a variety of working conditions.

methodsSystematic review. Organisational-level workplace interventions aiming at improving employees' health were identified in electronic databases and manual searches. The appraisal of studies was adapted from the Cochrane Back Review Group guidelines. To improve comparability of the widely varying studies we classified the interventions according to the main approaches towards modifying working conditions. Based on this classification we applied a logistic regression model to estimate significant intervention effects.

results39 intervention studies published between 1993 and 2012 were included. In terms of methodology the majority of interventions were of medium quality, and four studies only had a high level of evidence. About half of the studies (19) reported significant effects. There was a marginally significant probability of reporting effects among interventions targeting several organisational-level modifications simultaneously (Odds ratio (OR) 2.71; 95% CI 0.94-11.12), compared to those targeting one dimension only.

conclusionsDespite the heterogeneity of the 39 organisational-level workplace interventions underlying this review, we were able to compare their effects by applying broad classification categories. Success rates were higher among more comprehensive interventions tackling material, organisational and work-time related conditions simultaneously. To increase the number of successful organisational-level interventions in the future, commonly reported obstacles against the implementation process should be addressed in developing these studies.

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EmploymentOccupational HealthHealth PromotionHumansWorkplace

Identifiers

PMID24507447
PMCPMC3929163

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