Project description
Interventions in mental and physical health in the workplace
Workplaces have undergone significant changes due to digital and green transitions, as well as the impacts of COVID-19, which have had repercussions on the physical and mental health of workers. The EU-funded PROSPERH project aims to gather crucial data and evidence on the factors influencing mental and physical health in the workplace. This data will be used to develop and validate the PROSPERH intervention, which will be delivered through the PROSPERH Portal. The intervention will comprise three components targeting organisational, peer, and individual aspects of work, with a focus on health promotion, online self-monitoring and management, and pathways for clinical care or coaching referrals. The project will customise the intervention content for three sectors experiencing significant changes: telework and ICT-based mobile work, health, and construction.
Objective
Recent years have seen rapid changes in the workplace arising from the digital and green transitions (‘twin transition’), as well as the COVID-19 pandemic. New forms of work and work management have arisen, which can affect the physical and mental health of workers in new ways (both positive and negative) that are not yet well understood. Yet, workplaces can be health-promoting environments. Robust, comprehensive data must be generated, made available to key stakeholders, translated into evidence-based guidance to support the design of policies and used to develop evidence-based interventions and guidelines to promote mental and physical well-being and health in the workplace.
PROSPERH will gather timely data and robust evidence on factors influencing mental and physical health in the workplace from the literature and analysis of existing high-quality datasets. Based on this evidence and building on existing EU-funded and national interventions, the project will develop and validate the multi-level PROSPERH intervention, delivered via the PROSPERH Portal. The intervention will target both organisational (work), peer and individual (worker) aspects, with three components focusing on health promotion, online self-monitoring & self-management and clinical care or coaching referral pathways. Development will focus on tailoring content for three sectors experiencing significant change (telework and ICT-based mobile work, health and construction), with validation carried out in 10 representative European countries and Australia through a cluster-randomised controlled trial to determine effectiveness and cost-effectiveness. To ensure that the expected impacts of PROSPERH are achieved during and beyond the project lifetime, key outputs of the project will include open access publications and FAIR datasets, guidelines and recommendations and a roadmap for making the PROSPERH Portal freely available in a sustainable manner.
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T12 YN60 Cork
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Participants (15)
T12 Cork
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04109 Leipzig
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
04109 Leipzig
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3000 Leuven
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2100 Kobenhavn
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3015 GD Rotterdam
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4050-600 PORTO
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08003 Barcelona
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00271 Helsinki
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1001 Tirana
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20000 PRIZREN
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35665 IZMIR
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1089 Budapest
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1250-133 LISBOA
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
A94 K542 Blackrock
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
Partners (3)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
TW1 4SX Twickenham
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
FK9 4LA Stirling
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
4111 Brisbane
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