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Development and validation of the Health-Friendly Activity Index: an assessment tool to comprehensively measure health-friendly activities of corporations or organisations
- Source :
- BMJ Open, Vol 11, Iss 7 (2021), BMJ Open
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- BMJ Publishing Group, 2021.
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Abstract
- ObjectivesWe developed the Health-Friendly Activity Index (HFAI) to comprehensively measure the health-friendly activities of corporations or organisations. We validated the developed tool and reported on its use as an assessment tool to improve consumers’ health-related outcomes.DesignThis was a cross-sectional study.SettingDevelopment of the HFAI questionnaire followed a three-phase process: item generation, item construction and validation with field testing. Using relevance and feasibility criteria, we developed a 105-item questionnaire with six domains (Governance and Infrastructure, Needs Assessment, Planning, Implementation, Monitoring and Feedback, and Outcomes).ParticipantsTo assess the sensitivity and validity of the questionnaire, the HFAI and Contribution Assessment Tool for Consumer’s Health (CATCH) were administered to 302 participants (151 employers and 151 employees) from 151 Korean companies.Primary outcome measuresThe CATCH measured the contribution of each company to the physical, mental, social and spiritual health of its consumers. To estimate the reliability and validity of all six HFAI domains and their respective scales, Cronbach’s α coefficients and correlation coefficients were used.ResultsEach domain and scale of the HFAI exhibited a Cronbach’s α coefficient between 0.80 and 0.98 for the employers and employees. The overall HFAI and its six domains correlated significantly and positively with all health outcomes such as physical, mental, social and spiritual status scores evaluated using the CATCH (Spearman’s correlation range: 0.37–0.68).ConclusionThe HFAI, a unique assessment tool with acceptable psychometric properties, can help corporate managers assess their health-friendly activities.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Psychometrics
030309 nutrition & dietetics
quality in healthcare
Applied psychology
03 medical and health sciences
social medicine
0302 clinical medicine
Cronbach's alpha
Social medicine
Surveys and Questionnaires
medicine
Humans
Relevance (information retrieval)
030212 general & internal medicine
Reliability (statistics)
0303 health sciences
business.industry
Corporate governance
Public health
Reproducibility of Results
General Medicine
Cross-Sectional Studies
Scale (social sciences)
Needs assessment
Medicine
Public Health
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20446055
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMJ Open
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5de73f1bce5318c6591562a09c7ed5a0