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Workplace health promotion for employees working in offshore wind parks in the German exclusive economic zone: a mixed-methods study

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the awareness and use of health promotion offers among offshore wind workers and to study associations with demographic and workplace characteristics. To examine employees’ reasons for (non-)participation and their wishes for health promotion activities offshore. DESIGN: M...

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Autores principales: Mette, Janika, Velasco Garrido, Marcial, Preisser, Alexandra Marita, Harth, Volker, Mache, Stefanie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6078244/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30082344
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020493
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author Mette, Janika
Velasco Garrido, Marcial
Preisser, Alexandra Marita
Harth, Volker
Mache, Stefanie
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Velasco Garrido, Marcial
Preisser, Alexandra Marita
Harth, Volker
Mache, Stefanie
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description OBJECTIVES: To investigate the awareness and use of health promotion offers among offshore wind workers and to study associations with demographic and workplace characteristics. To examine employees’ reasons for (non-)participation and their wishes for health promotion activities offshore. DESIGN: Mixed-methods study presenting the results from semistructured telephone interviews and a web-based cross-sectional survey. SETTING: Offshore wind parks in the German exclusive economic zone in the North and Baltic Seas. PARTICIPANTS: 21 offshore workers in the qualitative study (19 male/2 female; all German). 303 offshore workers in the quantitative study (287 male/13 female; 275 German/24 other nationalities). OUTCOME MEASURES: Awareness and use of workplace health promotion offers and associations with demographic and workplace characteristics (age, work schedule and wind park phase); reasons for (non-)participation; needs and wishes for health promotion offers. RESULTS: Few workers indicated being aware of health promotion programmes at their workplace. Single offers were reported, with fitness facilities being the most common offer employees recognised and had used (n=168, 55.6%). Employees with a regular work schedule were more likely to have used fitness facilities offshore (adjusted OR (AOR)=3.22, 95% CI 1.53 to 6.80). Workers in the construction phase were more likely to have used massages (AOR=8.19, 95% CI 2.82 to 23.77). Younger workers were less likely to belong to the group of those who were aware of fitness facilities but had not used them (AOR=0.43, 95% CI 0.19 to 0.98). Employees expressed various needs and wishes for behavioural and environmental preventive measures offshore. CONCLUSIONS: The results demonstrate a perceived need among the workers for the development of health promotion programmes offshore. Since the awareness and use of offers may partly depend on personal and organisational characteristics, this should be taken into account in the planning of health promotion activities.
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spelling pubmed-60782442018-08-09 Workplace health promotion for employees working in offshore wind parks in the German exclusive economic zone: a mixed-methods study Mette, Janika Velasco Garrido, Marcial Preisser, Alexandra Marita Harth, Volker Mache, Stefanie BMJ Open Public Health OBJECTIVES: To investigate the awareness and use of health promotion offers among offshore wind workers and to study associations with demographic and workplace characteristics. To examine employees’ reasons for (non-)participation and their wishes for health promotion activities offshore. DESIGN: Mixed-methods study presenting the results from semistructured telephone interviews and a web-based cross-sectional survey. SETTING: Offshore wind parks in the German exclusive economic zone in the North and Baltic Seas. PARTICIPANTS: 21 offshore workers in the qualitative study (19 male/2 female; all German). 303 offshore workers in the quantitative study (287 male/13 female; 275 German/24 other nationalities). OUTCOME MEASURES: Awareness and use of workplace health promotion offers and associations with demographic and workplace characteristics (age, work schedule and wind park phase); reasons for (non-)participation; needs and wishes for health promotion offers. RESULTS: Few workers indicated being aware of health promotion programmes at their workplace. Single offers were reported, with fitness facilities being the most common offer employees recognised and had used (n=168, 55.6%). Employees with a regular work schedule were more likely to have used fitness facilities offshore (adjusted OR (AOR)=3.22, 95% CI 1.53 to 6.80). Workers in the construction phase were more likely to have used massages (AOR=8.19, 95% CI 2.82 to 23.77). Younger workers were less likely to belong to the group of those who were aware of fitness facilities but had not used them (AOR=0.43, 95% CI 0.19 to 0.98). Employees expressed various needs and wishes for behavioural and environmental preventive measures offshore. CONCLUSIONS: The results demonstrate a perceived need among the workers for the development of health promotion programmes offshore. Since the awareness and use of offers may partly depend on personal and organisational characteristics, this should be taken into account in the planning of health promotion activities. BMJ Publishing Group 2018-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6078244/ /pubmed/30082344 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020493 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2018. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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Harth, Volker
Mache, Stefanie
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title Workplace health promotion for employees working in offshore wind parks in the German exclusive economic zone: a mixed-methods study
title_full Workplace health promotion for employees working in offshore wind parks in the German exclusive economic zone: a mixed-methods study
title_fullStr Workplace health promotion for employees working in offshore wind parks in the German exclusive economic zone: a mixed-methods study
title_full_unstemmed Workplace health promotion for employees working in offshore wind parks in the German exclusive economic zone: a mixed-methods study
title_short Workplace health promotion for employees working in offshore wind parks in the German exclusive economic zone: a mixed-methods study
title_sort workplace health promotion for employees working in offshore wind parks in the german exclusive economic zone: a mixed-methods study
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6078244/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30082344
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020493
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