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Building Health Promotion into the Job of Home Care Aides: Transformation of the Workplace Health Environment
Home care aides (HCAs), predominantly women, constitute one of the fastest growing occupations in the United States. HCAs work in clients’ homes that lack typical workplace resources and benefits. This mixed-methods study examined how HCAs’ work environment was transformed by a pilot workplace healt...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5409585/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28379207 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14040384 |
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author | Muramatsu, Naoko Yin, Lijuan Lin, Ting-Ti |
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description | Home care aides (HCAs), predominantly women, constitute one of the fastest growing occupations in the United States. HCAs work in clients’ homes that lack typical workplace resources and benefits. This mixed-methods study examined how HCAs’ work environment was transformed by a pilot workplace health promotion program that targeted clients as well as workers. The intervention started with training HCAs to deliver a gentle physical activity program to their older clients in a Medicaid-funded home care program. Older HCAs aged 50+ reported increased time doing the types of physical activity that they delivered to their clients (stretching or strengthening exercise) (p = 0.027). Almost all (98%) HCAs were satisfied with the program. These quantitative results were corroborated by qualitative data from open-ended survey questions and focus groups. HCAs described how they exercised with clients and how the psychosocial work environment changed with the program. Building physical activity into HCAs’ job is feasible and can effectively promote HCAs’ health, especially among older HCAs. |
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spelling | pubmed-54095852017-05-03 Building Health Promotion into the Job of Home Care Aides: Transformation of the Workplace Health Environment Muramatsu, Naoko Yin, Lijuan Lin, Ting-Ti Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Home care aides (HCAs), predominantly women, constitute one of the fastest growing occupations in the United States. HCAs work in clients’ homes that lack typical workplace resources and benefits. This mixed-methods study examined how HCAs’ work environment was transformed by a pilot workplace health promotion program that targeted clients as well as workers. The intervention started with training HCAs to deliver a gentle physical activity program to their older clients in a Medicaid-funded home care program. Older HCAs aged 50+ reported increased time doing the types of physical activity that they delivered to their clients (stretching or strengthening exercise) (p = 0.027). Almost all (98%) HCAs were satisfied with the program. These quantitative results were corroborated by qualitative data from open-ended survey questions and focus groups. HCAs described how they exercised with clients and how the psychosocial work environment changed with the program. Building physical activity into HCAs’ job is feasible and can effectively promote HCAs’ health, especially among older HCAs. MDPI 2017-04-05 2017-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5409585/ /pubmed/28379207 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14040384 Text en © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Muramatsu, Naoko Yin, Lijuan Lin, Ting-Ti Building Health Promotion into the Job of Home Care Aides: Transformation of the Workplace Health Environment |
title | Building Health Promotion into the Job of Home Care Aides: Transformation of the Workplace Health Environment |
title_full | Building Health Promotion into the Job of Home Care Aides: Transformation of the Workplace Health Environment |
title_fullStr | Building Health Promotion into the Job of Home Care Aides: Transformation of the Workplace Health Environment |
title_full_unstemmed | Building Health Promotion into the Job of Home Care Aides: Transformation of the Workplace Health Environment |
title_short | Building Health Promotion into the Job of Home Care Aides: Transformation of the Workplace Health Environment |
title_sort | building health promotion into the job of home care aides: transformation of the workplace health environment |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5409585/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28379207 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14040384 |
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