A Web-Based HIV/STD Workplace Prevention and Policy Development Program

描述（由申请人提供）：感染艾滋病毒的人是美国劳动力的重要组成部分，他们的数量正在增长。事实上，调查显示，工作的成年人关心艾滋病，认为他们的雇主是艾滋病相关信息的可靠来源，并希望在工作场所提供艾滋病预防项目。在工作场所实施艾滋病教育和预防项目也有很多合理的商业理由。治疗艾滋病毒费用昂贵，导致医疗保险费更高。没有任何一种疾病导致的工作场所诉讼比艾滋病毒/艾滋病更多。最后，关于传播的常见误解会导致同事的恐惧，降低工作效率。尽管如此，只有15%的工作场所提供艾滋病毒/艾滋病教育项目，大多数只关注职业暴露问题。工地项目的缺乏主要是由于目前可用资源的不足。它们需要大量的时间来实现，不依赖于公认的行为改变原则，并且不能根据个别工作场所及其员工的独特需求进行定制。ISA小组建议通过为雇主及其雇员开发一个基于网络的艾滋病毒/性病工作场所预防和政策制定计划来填补这一空白。这个多媒体课程将指导高级管理层逐步制定工作场所政策。如果一项政策已经到位，或被纳入更普遍的威胁生命的疾病和残疾政策，则交互式工具将评估其与艾滋病毒/艾滋病问题相关的充分性（例如，遵守联邦、州和地方法律；保密；工作场所歧视等）。这项政策将成为所有工作场所预防艾滋病毒/性病工作的基础。对于主管来说，该项目将提高他们对工作场所艾滋病政策的理解，培养他们有效应对感染艾滋病的员工的技能，并帮助他们培养积极的工作场所艾滋病预防教育规范。该项目将为员工及其家属提供经验验证的艾滋病预防技术培训。在第一阶段，将开发一个程序的原型，并在30名潜在用户（10名主管/20名员工）中进行测试。参与者将被要求审查原型程序，并将其与领先的工作场所替代方案进行比较。如果原型通过了既定的可行性标准，在第二阶段，它将被充分开发，严格的实地测试，并准备销售。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): People infected with HIV are a significant part of the U.S. workforce and they are growing in numbers. Indeed, surveys suggest that working adults are concerned about HIV/AIDS, consider their employer a credible source of HIV/AIDS-related information, and want HIV prevention programs offered at the workplace. There are also many sound business reasons to implement workplace HIV education and prevention programs. Treating HIV is expensive, leading to higher health insurance premiums. No single disease has resulted in more workplace lawsuits than HIV/AIDS. Finally, common misperceptions regarding transmission can lead to co-worker fear and reduced on-the-job productivity. Despite this, only 15% of worksites offer HIV/AIDS education programs with most focusing exclusively on occupational exposure issues. This dearth of worksite programs is primarily due to the inadequacy of currently available resources. They are time-intensive to implement, do not rely on accepted behavior change principles, and cannot be tailored to the unique needs of individual worksites and their employees. The ISA Group proposes to fill this void by developing a web-based HIV/STD workplace prevention and policy development program for employers and their employees. This multi-media program will guide senior management through a step-by-step workplace policy development process. If a policy is already in place, or is subsumed under a more general life- threatening illness and disability policy, an interactive tool will assess its adequacy as it relates to HIV/AIDS issues (e.g., compliance with federal, state, and local laws; confidentiality; workplace discrimination; etc). This policy will then serve as the foundation for all workplace HIV/STD prevention efforts. For supervisors, the program will increase their understanding of the HIV/AIDS workplace policy, develop their skills to effectively respond to an employee infected with HIV/AIDS, and help them foster positive workplace norms for HIV/STD prevention education. For employees and their families, the program will provide training in empirically validated HIV prevention techniques. In Phase I, a prototype of the program will be developed and tested with 30 potential users (10 supervisors/20 employees). Participants will be asked to review the prototype program and compare it to the leading workplace alternative. If the prototype passes the established feasibility criteria, during Phase II it will be fully developed, rigorously field-tested, and prepared for marketing. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE This project aims to develop a web-based HIV/STD workplace prevention and policy development program. For businesses this will allow them to realize gains in worker productivity, reduce the likelihood of lawsuits, and reduce their health care costs. For employees and their families, the skills contained in this program will help them reduce risk behaviors and, ultimately, prevent the spread of HIV/STDs.