Development of the environmental assessment tool (eat) to measure organizational physical and social support for worksite obesity prevention programs.

Auteur(s) :
Wang SY., Wilson MG., Goetzel RZ., Ozminkowski RJ., Dejoy DM., Tully KJ.
Date :
Fév, 2008
Source(s) :
J OCCUP ENVIRON MED.. #50:2 p126-137
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From the Department of Health Promotion and Behavior (Dr DeJoy, Dr Wilson, Ms Bowen, and Ms Baker), College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; Institute for Health and Productivity Studies (Dr Goetzel), Emory University, Washington, DC; Health Economist (Dr Ozminkowski), Ann Arbor, MI; Consulting and Applied Research (Dr. Goetzel) and Health and Productivity Research (Dr Wang and Ms Baker), Thomson Healthcare, Washington, DC; and Health Services Expertise Center (Ms Tully), The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI.

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OBJECTIVE:: To describe the development, reliability, and validity of the Environmental Assessment Tool (EAT) for assessing worksite physical and social environmental support for obesity prevention. METHODS:: The EAT was developed using a multistep process. Inter-rater reliability was estimated via Kappa and other measures. Concurrent and predictive validity were estimated using site-level correlations and person-level multiple regression analyses comparing EAT scores and employee absenteeism and health care expenditures. RESULTS:: Results show high inter-rater reliability and concurrent validity for many measures and predictive validity for absenteeism expenditures. CONCLUSIONS:: The primary use of the EAT is as a physical and social environment assessment tool for worksite obesity prevention efforts. It can be used as a reliable and valid means to estimate relationships between environmental interventions and absenteeism and medical expenditures, provided those expenditures are for the same year that the EAT is administered.

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