The co-creation of a lifestyle health behaviour intervention in desk-based remote workers

对办公桌远程工作人员共同创建生活方式健康行为干预

• 批准号: MR/Z503629/1
• 负责人: Elizabeth Stamp
• 金额: $ 19.68万
• 依托单位: Loughborough University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FZ503629%2F1
• 关键词: co; creation; lifestyle; health; behaviour

This project will develop an intervention to enhance the health-related lifestyle behaviours of remote workers. Since the Covid-19 pandemic there has been a rise in home workers in the UK. Between January and February 2023, 40% of the UK working population reported working from home at least once in the last seven days. While working remotely provides some benefits (e.g., better work-life balance, reduced commute time) it can result in unhealthy lifestyle behaviours.Unhealthy lifestyle behaviours associated with remote working include reduced physical activity, prolonged sitting, snacking more frequently. Work from our research group with UK remote workers has revealed that workers are less active and sit more when working from home versus working in an office, with 60% of participants reporting sitting for longer since working at home. These behaviours are linked to an increased risk of weight gain, long-term health conditions (e.g., diabetes, cancer), muscle pains (e.g., back pain, neck pain) and mental health and wellbeing disturbances.Since the pandemic, Macmillan are one of many organisations who have implemented a permanent remote working policy for their cancer support contact centre team. This desk-based team offer support regarding a cancer diagnosis over the phone. Since implementing home working, a wellbeing assessment at Macmillan revealed that a high percentage of employees reported not moving much during the working day, raising concerns over their current and longer-term physical and mental wellbeing.We will work with Macmillan to develop an intervention to increase movement and reduce sitting time within this essential, but highly sedentary and at-risk, workforce. The intervention will be developed in partnership with Macmillan employees and senior management, potential intervention components (based on the findings of this work) may include online educational and motivational resources, targeting the individual, organisational, and policy levels. Intervention development will be guided by psychological theories that help change behaviour.We will create a public engagement group, which will consist of key stakeholders (e.g., managers, HR staff, employees) to provide their opinions throughout the project to enhance likelihood of intervention acceptability and success. The project will consist of four stages:1) The health-related lifestyle behaviours (e.g., physical activity, sitting time, dietary intake) of remote Macmillan workers will be monitored via tracking devices and questionnaires. These findings will help identify if there are certain times of the day or patterns in behaviour where support is particularly required.2) Interviews with Macmillan contact centre staff will explore their experiences of remote working, the impact on physical and mental health and health-related lifestyle behaviours, challenges when working remotely, and ways to overcome these challenges.3) Co-creation workshops will be conducted with employees, managers, and HR staff, during which scenarios will be presented based on the findings of stages 1 and 2 and solutions discussed.4) An investigation into whether it is feasible to implement and evaluate the intervention developed in stage 3. Feasibility will be based on factors such as participant recruitment and whether people engage with the intervention and complete the proposed evaluation measures. We will assess whether the intervention shows the potential for promoting movement and reducing sitting in this workforce. If this is the case, we will conduct a future study to examine the effectiveness of our intervention within a larger group (including different organisations) of employees working from home.

该项目将开发一种干预措施，以增强与健康相关的生活方式行为。自从19日大流行以来，英国的家庭工人就有上升。在2023年1月至2023年2月之间，在过去七天中，英国有40％的工作人数至少在家中工作一次。虽然工作远程提供了一些好处（例如，更好的工作与生活平衡，减少通勤时间）可能会导致不健康的生活方式行为。与远程工作相关的不健康的生活方式行为包括减少体育锻炼，延长坐着，零食更频繁。我们研究小组与英国远程工人的工作表明，在家工作与在办公室工作时，工人的活跃程度较小，坐得更多，自家工作以来，有60％的参与者报告了更长的时间。这些行为与体重增加，长期健康状况（例如糖尿病，癌症），肌肉疼痛（例如，背痛，颈部疼痛）以及心理健康和福祉障碍的风险增加有关。麦克米伦（Macmillan）是许多组织之一，他们实施了为其癌症支持接触中心团队实施永久性远程工作政策。这个基于办公桌的团队提供了有关通过电话进行癌症诊断的支持。自从实施家庭工作以来，麦克米伦（Macmillan）的福祉评估表明，在工作日，有很高比例的员工在工作日的移动不多，引起人们对他们当前和长期的身心健康的担忧。我们将与麦克米伦（Macmillan）一起开发干预措施，以增加运动并减少这一重要的，但高度久坐和高风险和处于危险中的工作，工作。干预措施将与Macmillan员工和高级管理层合作开发，潜在的干预组件（基于这项工作的发现）可能包括在线教育和动机资源，以个人，组织和政策水平为目标。干预开发将以有助于改变行为的心理理论为指导。我们将建立一个公共参与小组，该小组将由关键的利益相关者（例如，经理，人力资源人员，员工，员工）组成，以在整个项目中发表意见，以增强干预性可接受性和成功的可能性。该项目将包括四个阶段：1）远程Macmillan工人的与健康相关的生活方式行为（例如体育锻炼，坐着时间，饮食摄入量）将通过跟踪设备和问卷进行监控。这些发现将有助于确定特别需要支撑的行为中的某些时间或模式。2）与Macmillan联络中心工作人员的访谈将探索他们对远程工作的经历，对身心健康和健康相关的生活方式的影响，远程工作时的挑战，远程工作时的挑战，以及在这些挑战中的挑战的方式。关于讨论的第1阶段和解决方案的发现。4）对第3阶段在第3阶段实施和评估干预措施是否可行的调查。可行性将基于参与者招聘等因素，以及人们是否参与干预并完成拟议的评估措施。我们将评估干预措施是否显示出促进运动和降低该员工队伍的潜力。如果是这种情况，我们将进行未来的研究，以研究我们在家工作的较大群体（包括不同组织）内干预的有效性。