Physical Activity, Learning Styles and Health Literacy

描述（由申请人提供）：卫生界面临的一个主要挑战是身体活动不足的比例越来越高。随着越来越多的研究记录了缺乏身体活动与肥胖、生活质量差和健康状况之间的关系，这一点引起了重大关注。由于大多数成年人大部分醒着的时间都在工作，工作场所环境是身体活动干预的一个有希望的领域。许多研究已经证明了各种方案的有效性，而许多其他研究则表明这些方案并不有效。一个尚未探索的途径是员工的学习风格和健康素养技能与各种身体活动干预的作用。也许，如果员工的风格与适当的干预方法相匹配，他们更有可能改变自己的行为。总体项目目标是确定量身定制的创新工作场所健康促进计划的有效性，以增加体力活动。具体而言，该项目的目标是：1）加强目前的健康促进活动的埃默里大学的员工; 2）确定员工的选择不同的干预策略的学习风格和健康素养的技能; 3）评估的有效性，量身定制的干预计划的基础上的学习风格和健康素养的目标人群的技能;以及4）检查干预方案不同组成部分的成本效益。 这项随机对照试验将涉及1,600多名埃默里员工，包括埃默里大学，埃默里医疗保健和埃默里诊所，并将建立在目前改善埃默里员工健康的努力基础上。跨学科和跨部门的项目团队由埃默里公共卫生学院的既定研究人员，埃默里各业务部门的主要工作人员（人力资源，教师和员工援助计划，医疗保健），埃默里员工代表一系列职业（例如，监护人，教师），以及全国知名的公共卫生和学习理论专业人士的顾问小组。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A major challenge facing the health community is the increasing rates of physical inactivity. This is of significant concern as more studies are documenting the relationship between physical inactivity and obesity, poor quality of life and health status. Since most adults spend the majority of their waking hours at work, the workplace environment is a promising area for physical activity interventions. A number of studies have documented the effectiveness of various programs, while many others have shown they are not effective. One avenue that has not been explored is the role of employee's learning styles and health literacy skills with various physical activity interventions. Perhaps if an employee's style is matched with an appropriate intervention method, they would be more likely to change their behavior. The overall project goal is to determine the effectiveness of a tailored innovative worksite health promotion program to increase physical activity. Specifically, the project's objectives are to: 1) enhance current health promotion activities for Emory employees; 2) determine if employee's choice of different intervention strategies vary by learning styles and health literacy skills; 3) evaluate the effectiveness of tailoring intervention programs based on learning styles and health literacy skills of the target population; and 4) examine the cost effectiveness of different components of the intervention program. The randomized control trial will involve over 1,600 Emory employees, including Emory University, Emory Healthcare and Emory Clinic and will build upon current efforts to improve the health of Emory employees. The trans-disciplinary and trans-sector project team consists of established researchers at Emory School of Public Health, key staff with various business units at Emory (Human Resources, Faculty and Staff Assistance Program, Healthcare), Emory employees representing a range of occupations (e.g., custodial, faculty), and an advisory panel of nationally renowned public health and learning theory professionals.