Preventive medicine
-
Preventive medicine · Jan 1998
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialWorksite health and safety climate: scale development and effects of a health promotion intervention.
Environmental influences on health and health behavior have an important place in research on worksite health promotion. We tested the validity and internal consistency of a new measure of organizational health and safety climate that was used in a large randomized trial of a worksite cancer prevention program (the Working Well Trial). The resulting scales then were applied to assess intervention effects. ⋯ The health and safety climate scales developed for this study provide useful instruments for measuring organizational change related to worksite health promotion activities. The Working Well Intervention resulted in a significant improvement in worksite health climate.