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Health risk appraisals in Swedish occupational health services
BACKGROUND: Health risk appraisals (HRAs) in occupational health services (OHS) in Sweden are very commonly used for health promotion issues, but not much research has explored the extent and nature of individual feedback that is provided. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to describe and explore HRAs in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5240593/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28059808 http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/WOR-162443 |
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author | Grooten, Wilhelmus Johannes Andreas Müller, Mira Forsman, Mikael Kjellberg, Katarina Toomingas, Allan Björn Olov, Ång Svartengren, Magnus |
author_facet | Grooten, Wilhelmus Johannes Andreas Müller, Mira Forsman, Mikael Kjellberg, Katarina Toomingas, Allan Björn Olov, Ång Svartengren, Magnus |
author_sort | Grooten, Wilhelmus Johannes Andreas |
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description | BACKGROUND: Health risk appraisals (HRAs) in occupational health services (OHS) in Sweden are very commonly used for health promotion issues, but not much research has explored the extent and nature of individual feedback that is provided. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to describe and explore HRAs in OHS regarding the content of the feedback in relation to the individual status and overall employee satisfaction. METHODS: Feedback (evaluation and advice) and employee satisfaction with HRA were studied in employees that participated in health risk appraisals with a specific feedback session (HRA-F) (n = 272) and employees that participated in a single session (HRA-S) (n = 104). Associations between feedback and individual status concerning life style were assessed with Cohen’s kappa (k). RESULTS: The employees received mainly information and advice for improvement on health and lifestyle issues (89–100%), while advice for improvement of working conditions was less common (15–59%). The feedback provided on life style was not based on individual status (k < 0.4), except for smoking and risky alcohol consumption (k > 0.55). A great majority of employees reported good overall satisfaction with their HRAs. CONCLUSIONS: The evaluation and feedback given to employees after HRAs should be based more on HRA-results and advice could be focused more on work-related factors. |
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spelling | pubmed-52405932017-01-23 Health risk appraisals in Swedish occupational health services Grooten, Wilhelmus Johannes Andreas Müller, Mira Forsman, Mikael Kjellberg, Katarina Toomingas, Allan Björn Olov, Ång Svartengren, Magnus Work Research Article BACKGROUND: Health risk appraisals (HRAs) in occupational health services (OHS) in Sweden are very commonly used for health promotion issues, but not much research has explored the extent and nature of individual feedback that is provided. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to describe and explore HRAs in OHS regarding the content of the feedback in relation to the individual status and overall employee satisfaction. METHODS: Feedback (evaluation and advice) and employee satisfaction with HRA were studied in employees that participated in health risk appraisals with a specific feedback session (HRA-F) (n = 272) and employees that participated in a single session (HRA-S) (n = 104). Associations between feedback and individual status concerning life style were assessed with Cohen’s kappa (k). RESULTS: The employees received mainly information and advice for improvement on health and lifestyle issues (89–100%), while advice for improvement of working conditions was less common (15–59%). The feedback provided on life style was not based on individual status (k < 0.4), except for smoking and risky alcohol consumption (k > 0.55). A great majority of employees reported good overall satisfaction with their HRAs. CONCLUSIONS: The evaluation and feedback given to employees after HRAs should be based more on HRA-results and advice could be focused more on work-related factors. IOS Press 2016-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC5240593/ /pubmed/28059808 http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/WOR-162443 Text en IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Grooten, Wilhelmus Johannes Andreas Müller, Mira Forsman, Mikael Kjellberg, Katarina Toomingas, Allan Björn Olov, Ång Svartengren, Magnus Health risk appraisals in Swedish occupational health services |
title | Health risk appraisals in Swedish occupational health services |
title_full | Health risk appraisals in Swedish occupational health services |
title_fullStr | Health risk appraisals in Swedish occupational health services |
title_full_unstemmed | Health risk appraisals in Swedish occupational health services |
title_short | Health risk appraisals in Swedish occupational health services |
title_sort | health risk appraisals in swedish occupational health services |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5240593/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28059808 http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/WOR-162443 |
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