A workplace health promotion application of the Precede-Proceed model in a regional and remote mining company in Whyalla, South Australia
International Journal of Workplace Health Management
ISSN: 1753-8351
Article publication date: 14 September 2015
Abstract
Purpose
Workplace health promotion enables the dissemination of health-related information to a large portion of society and provides a vehicle for translating results of efficacy studies to effective lifestyle interventions under less controlled real-world conditions. To achieve effectiveness there needs to be a systematic approach to the design, implementation, and evaluation of workplace health promotion interventions. The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of a workplace programme in a mining and steel making town in regional South Australia.
Design/methodology/approach
The Precede-Proceed model (PPM) was used as a framework to design the development, implementation, and evaluation of the programme.
Findings
Quality of life issues and antecedents of modifiable behavioural and environmental factors to be targeted by interventions were identified. Relevant socio-behavioural theories were used to guide intervention development and evaluation. An intervention programme was planned to enable the delivery of educational and skills-development strategies by peers within structured organisational work units.
Originality/value
This research utilises the PPM to develop, implement, and evaluate intervention strategies targeting the development of diabetes and cardiometabolic risk in a remotely located workplace population. Novel to this approach is the utilisation of the entire PPM in the research; the multiple baseline, interrupted time series design of the study; and its application in a workplace environment noted for increased health risk factors, within a community at high risk of development of type 2 diabetes.
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Acknowledgements
Funding: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing through the University Department of Rural Health Scheme. OneSteel Whyalla Pty Ltd (an Arrium company). MTH was supported during formative phases of this research by a Post-Doctoral Training Fellowship (Public Health) from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia (No. 511345) and is currently supported by a University of South Australia-Royal Flying Doctor Service Fellowship. DP is supported by the Workplace Health Promotion PhD scholarship through the University Department of Rural Health.
Jon Buckley and Peter Howe for their contribution in the early phases of the iWhyalla programme; Siobhan Banks for her contribution to the sleep hygiene component of the iWhyalla programme; Angie Smyth and Peter Kaminski for their assistance; Kate Warren, Carmel Lowe, Julie-Ann Hill, and clinical staff of iWhyalla for their work in facilitating the clinics; and participants of WISH and iWhyalla for their contribution to this research.
OneSteel Whyalla is now an Arrium Company with two businesses: Arrium Mining and OneSteel Whyalla Steelworks.
Citation
Post, D.K., Daniel, M., Misan, G. and Haren, M.T. (2015), "A workplace health promotion application of the Precede-Proceed model in a regional and remote mining company in Whyalla, South Australia", International Journal of Workplace Health Management, Vol. 8 No. 3, pp. 154-174. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJWHM-08-2014-0028
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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