Flexible Work and Well-Being Center at the University of Minnesota

描述(申请人提供)：尽管近几年美国职场中“家庭友好型”政策的盛行显著增加，但很少有人使用科学合理的设计进行研究。为了解决这一关键差距，NIH和CDC成立了工作、家庭和健康网络(WFHN)。在第一阶段，WFHN设计并进行了多项试点和可行性研究。对于第二阶段，WFHN被要求实施创新的干预措施，并使用小组随机实验设计评估干预措施。这项申请构成了明尼苏达大学作为WFHN第二阶段研究单位的提议。这项拟议研究的目标是评估工作场所干预的效果，旨在减少工作-家庭冲突，从而改善员工、他们的家人和工作场所的健康和福祉。这项研究干预的理论基础来自多个学科，并得到了我们的试点/可行性研究结果的支持，这些研究结果表明，增加支持家庭的主管行为和员工对工作的控制的重要性。我们将通过分组随机现场试验来评估干预的效果，分别在代表不同行业的两个雇主中进行一次。在每个行业合作伙伴中，每个50-120名员工的30个工作地点将被随机分配到干预或常规实践条件下。所有员工和主管参与者将在基线以及基线后6个月、12个月和18个月进行评估，包括基于选定的生物标记物和动作学对心血管风险和睡眠失调进行调查访谈和健康评估。将对雇员的配偶/伴侣和/或10-17岁的子女进行评估，以记录干预对家庭功能的影响。此外，为了对工作-家庭冲突与健康之间的时间关系提供更详细的视角，500名员工参与者及其子女将参加每日日记评估，包括电话采访和唾液采样。我们的过程评估记录了参与者接受干预的保真度、实施和剂量的细节。WFHN还将把调查结果翻译到商业环境和其他公共媒体渠道。这项研究很有希望为循证家庭友好政策的实施提供信息，从而改善全国员工及其家人的健康和福祉。明尼苏达州的调查人员是唯一有资格为第二阶段研究做出贡献的人，他们将组织变革方面的社会学专业知识以及员工性别、年龄、生命阶段、种族/民族和健康状况对工作环境的不同影响带到网络中。明尼苏达州的第一阶段试点研究对第二阶段协议做出了直接和重要的贡献。该小组将作为网络改进、实施和评估待测试的创新工作场所干预措施的关键节点。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Although the prevalence of "family-friendly" policies in US workplaces has increased dramatically in recent years, few have been studied using scientifically sound designs. To address this critical gap, NIH and CDC formed the Work, Family, and Health Network (WFHN). During Phase 1, WFHN designed and conducted multiple pilot and feasibility studies. For Phase 2, the WFHN has been called upon to implement an innovative intervention and to evaluate the intervention using a group randomized experimental design. This application constitutes the University of Minnesota's proposal to serve as a Research Unit in Phase 2 of the WFHN. The goal of the proposed study is to assess the effects of a workplace intervention designed to reduce work-family conflict, and thereby improve the health and well being of employees, their families, and their workplaces. The study intervention is grounded in theory from multiple disciplines and supported by findings from our pilot/feasibility studies on the importance of increasing family-supportive supervisor behaviors and employees' control over work. We will assess the efficacy of the intervention via group randomized field experiments, one at each of two employers representing different industries. Within each industry partner, 30 worksites of 50-120 employees each will be randomly assigned to intervention or usual practice conditions. All employee and supervisor participants will be assessed at baseline and at 6-, 12-, and 18-months post baseline, including survey interviews and health assessments of cardiovascular risk and sleep dysregulation based on selected biomarkers and actigraphy. Employees' spouse/partners and/or child aged 10-17 years will be assessed to document the impact of the intervention on family functioning. In addition, to provide a more detailed perspective on the temporal relationship of work-family conflict and health, a subsample of 500 employee participants and their child will participate in a daily diary assessment including telephone interviews and saliva sampling. Our process evaluation documents details of intervention fidelity, implementation, and dose received by participants. The WFHN will also translate findings to business environments and other public media channels. The study holds great promise for informing the implementation of evidence-based family-friendly policies, and therefore improving the health and well-being of employees and their families nationwide. The Minnesota investigators are uniquely qualified to contribute to the Phase 2 study, bringing sociological expertise in organizational change and in the varying effects of the work environment by employees' gender, age, life stage, race/ethnicity, and health status to the Network. The Minnesota Phase 1 pilot study contributed directly and significantly to the Phase 2 protocol. This team will serve as a critical node in the Network's refinement, implementation, and evaluation of the innovative workplace intervention to be tested.