Optimizing the Health of Pre-Diabetic Healthcare Workers

描述(由申请者提供)：该项目将实施和评估一种新的方法，以吸引员工、他们的雇主和供应商在信息技术的支持下改善员工的健康和生产力。具体地说，我们的研究团队建议：1.通过使用自愿健康风险评估调查和空腹血糖来确定有患糖尿病(糖尿病前期)风险的员工群体；2.为这一亚群员工提供以个人为导向的健康促进和疾病预防计划3.随后实施各种“生态”干预措施，旨在创造工作场所的社会环境，优化雇主对个人行为变化的支持；4.利用新的信息技术来创建更以患者为中心、更有效、更共享的护理计划；5.衡量研究每个阶段的一系列结果，其中包括对健康行为和生物统计风险因素的衡量，以及诸如保健费用、残疾、工人补偿、缺勤和其他人类表现受损指标等经济变量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project will implement and evaluate a new approach to engage employees, their employer and providers to improve employee health and productivity with the support of information technology. Specifically, our research team proposes to: 1. identify the population of employees at risk for developing diabetes (pre-diabetes) through the use of a voluntary health risk appraisal survey and fasting blood sugar; 2. offer this sub-group of employees individually oriented health promotion and disease prevention programs 3. subsequently implement a wide variety of "ecological" interventions aimed at creating a social environment at the workplace that optimizes employer support for individual behavioral change; 4. employ novel information technologies to create a more patient-centered and effective, shared care plan; 5. measure an array of outcomes at each phase of the study that includes measures of health behaviors and biometric risk factors and economic variables such as costs of health care, disability, workers' compensation, absenteeism and other indicators of impaired human performance.