An Occupational Health Literacy Intervention in Nursing Homes Improved Organizational Health Literacy-A Quasi-Experimental Stepped Wedge Cluster Trial.

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 9504688 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1536-5948 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 10762752 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Occup Environ Med Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: Hagerstown, MD : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Original Publication: Baltimore, MD : Williams & Wilkins, c1995-

Health Literacy* ; Nursing Homes* ; Occupational Health*; Humans ; Female ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Adult ; Pain Management/methods ; Workplace

Objective: This study examined the effectiveness of a workplace health literacy intervention on individual, interpersonal, and organizational health literacy.
Method: Using a quasi-experimental stepped wedge cluster design, we evaluated an intervention for 509 nursing home employees with two elements: 1) courses for employees and management on pain prevention, management, and communication and 2) structured dialogues between employees and supervisors, emphasizing pain prevention.
Results: One organizational health literacy item improved, with supervisors helping with pain prevention increasing by 0.42 points (95% CI 0.11;0.73). Positive trends were observed in supervisor actions when informed about pain (0.39 points, 95% CI -0.09;0.86), ease of finding workplace pain solutions (0.12 points, 95% CI -0.03;0.79), and employees having pain management information (0.44 points, 95% CI -0.03;0.92).
Conclusion: The intervention improved one organizational health literacy item, with positive trends in three other items.
Competing Interests: Conflict of interest: None declared.
(Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.)

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