Test@Work Study: Evaluation of Attitudes and Uptake Within Employee Health Checks in the Construction Industry

Overview

This project is called Test@Work. In this project the investigators will offer general health checks and tailored health advice to up to 650 employees in the construction industry at sites across the East Midlands. The investigators will assess reach and uptake, and evaluate the views and perceptions of employees, managers and the delivery team. Health checks will include Body Mass Index (BMI; weight/height), waist-to-hip ratio, blood pressure, mental health screen, sexual health consultation and an opt-in rapid screening test for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Employees will be provided with a resource pack with information and signposting around physical activity, diabetes risk, diet, and musculoskeletal health. A digital resource providing information and signposting about workplace health screening and HIV testing will be developed and provided to managers at the participating worksites 2 weeks before their health check event. Employees will be offered an additional text messaging service involving receipt of a series of messages with advice around HIV and testing alongside general health information. Employees will complete post-health check exit questionnaires and an exit interview. Managers will complete a post-event evaluation questionnaire and post-event interview. Mixed-methods evaluation will include assessment of reach, uptake, and intervention implementation processes.

Full Title of Study: “Test@Work: Evaluation of Attitudes and Uptake Within Employee Health Checks in the Construction Industry”

Study Type

  • Study Type: Interventional
  • Study Design
    • Allocation: N/A
    • Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
    • Primary Purpose: Prevention
    • Masking: None (Open Label)
  • Study Primary Completion Date: November 30, 2020

Detailed Description

The investigators will collect evaluation data with employees and company representatives. Employees: will complete exit-questionnaires and be invited to a brief exit interview. The investigators will collect by anonymous questionnaire: age, gender, country of birth, ethnicity, postcode, sexual orientation, employment status (FT/PT, permanent, agency, contract worker), reasons for attending, health perceptions, prior HIV testing history, influence of work on health, perceptions of employers provision for health and wellbeing, perceptions towards HIV testing in the workplace, range of tests undertaken, views about the workplace health check and future health intentions. Personal identifiers will not be collected and questionnaire data will not be provided to employers. Those employees who agree to be interviewed after the health check will be invited to a brief independent confidential interview with the project researcher. Company representatives: will complete brief post-event questionnaire and be invited to post-event interview The investigators will ask about the organisational/employee profile, their perceptions of company provision for health and wellbeing, perceptions towards the usefulness of the implementation toolkit and towards HIV testing in the workplace, method of delivery and their confidence to support employees who disclose a positive test outcome, views about the workplace health check and future implementation intentions.

Interventions

  • Behavioral: Test@Work
    • Offer of a general health check including opt-in sexual health consultation and HIV testing, weight/height, Body Mass Index (BMI), blood pressure, mental health screen. Provision of tailored health advice and a resource pack with information and signposting.

Arms, Groups and Cohorts

  • Experimental: Health Checks
    • Workplace health checks – in this intervention employees can select from a range of optional health checks/tests and receive tailored health advice and a health resource pack.

Clinical Trial Outcome Measures

Primary Measures

  • Health check uptake
    • Time Frame: Rolling intervention delivery and data collection over 15 months
    • Percentage of employees choosing to take a workplace health check from total employee population across all sites

Secondary Measures

  • reasons for attending
    • Time Frame: immediately post-event
    • Qualitative data collected on reasons for opting in to health check
  • perceptions of employer’s provision for health and wellbeing
    • Time Frame: immediately post-event
    • Qualitative data collected on perceptions towards employer
  • perceptions towards HIV testing in the workplace
    • Time Frame: immediately post-event
    • Qualitative data collected on employee views towards HIV testing at work
  • range of tests undertaken
    • Time Frame: during the health check, and qualitative data immediately post-event
    • which of the optional checks/tests were taken by the employee
  • Employee demographic profile
    • Time Frame: At recruitment
    • Age, Gender, country of birth, ethnicity, postcode, sexual orientation, employment status (full-time or part-time, permanent, agency, contract worker)

Participating in This Clinical Trial

Inclusion Criteria

  • employee of a company in construction or related industries – provides informed consent Exclusion Criteria:

  • does not speak English

Gender Eligibility: All

Minimum Age: 18 Years

Maximum Age: N/A

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Investigator Details

  • Lead Sponsor
    • University of Nottingham
  • Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
    • Principal Investigator: Holly Blake, Associate Professor of Behavioural Science – University of Nottingham

References

Blake H, Somerset S, Evans C. Development and Fidelity Testing of the Test@Work Digital Toolkit for Employers on Workplace Health Checks and Opt-In HIV Testing. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Jan 6;17(1):379. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17010379.

Citations Reporting on Results

Blake H, Somerset S, Whittingham K, Middleton M, Yildirim M, Evans C. WHIRL Study: Workplace Health Interprofessional Learning in the Construction Industry. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Sep 18;17(18):6815. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17186815.

Middleton M, Somerset S, Evans C, Blake H. Test@Work Texts: Mobile Phone Messaging to Increase Awareness of HIV and HIV Testing in UK Construction Employees during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Oct 26;17(21):7819. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17217819.

Somerset S, Evans C, Blake H. Accessing Voluntary HIV Testing in the Construction Industry: A Qualitative Analysis of Employee Interviews from the Test@Work Study. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Apr 15;18(8):4184. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18084184.

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