Periodic Reporting for period 1 - PROSPERH (Promoting Positive Mental and Physical Health at Work in a Changing Environment: A Multi-level Approach)
Periodo di rendicontazione: 2024-01-01 al 2025-06-30
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 (website and app). The intervention will target both organisational (work), as well as peer and individual (worker) aspects, with three components focusing on health promotion, online self-monitoring and self-management, and clinical care or coaching referral pathways. Development will focus on tailoring content for three settings and 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 (cRCT) 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.
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 (website and app). The intervention will target both organisational (work), as well as peer and individual (worker) aspects, with three components focusing on health promotion, online self-monitoring and self-management, and clinical care or coaching referral pathways. Development will focus on tailoring content for three settings and 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 (cRCT) 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.
During the first 18 months of the project, the consortium was first established in terms of the project management structure and collaborative working arrangements, building on existing strong scientific relationships between partners. Key also in this first period was developing the brand, online assets (www.prosperh.eu) and communication and dissemination channels through which the project is promoted. These are important for building awareness and ultimately for the exploitation of findings post-project.
From a scientific perspective, PROSPERH commenced by building on the existing evidence-base of the consortium with a multi-country stakeholder consultation and a series of systematic reviews that provided concrete recommendations to inform both the approach to the Feasibility Study and future cRCT, but also the development of the PROSPERH portal (website and app) and related contents. A Living Review that will span the life of the project has also been established.
Full preparations for the Feasibility Study also took place in this period, including design of the study, development of the study protocol, evaluation plan, ethical considerations and documentation, data management plan, development of the PROSPERH portal (website and app) and content to be tested in the Study, and the commencement of recruitment of workplaces. Note the Feasibility Study commences then in RP2. Although the cRCT preparations do not fully commence until RP2, a repository of recently published and topic-related cRCTs has supported initial trial considerations and a program theory is well progressed.
PROSPERH was the first co-cordinator of the cluster WISEWORK-C and has been a very active member of the cluster, leading the communication and dissemination work.
From a scientific perspective, PROSPERH commenced by building on the existing evidence-base of the consortium with a multi-country stakeholder consultation and a series of systematic reviews that provided concrete recommendations to inform both the approach to the Feasibility Study and future cRCT, but also the development of the PROSPERH portal (website and app) and related contents. A Living Review that will span the life of the project has also been established.
Full preparations for the Feasibility Study also took place in this period, including design of the study, development of the study protocol, evaluation plan, ethical considerations and documentation, data management plan, development of the PROSPERH portal (website and app) and content to be tested in the Study, and the commencement of recruitment of workplaces. Note the Feasibility Study commences then in RP2. Although the cRCT preparations do not fully commence until RP2, a repository of recently published and topic-related cRCTs has supported initial trial considerations and a program theory is well progressed.
PROSPERH was the first co-cordinator of the cluster WISEWORK-C and has been a very active member of the cluster, leading the communication and dissemination work.
The evidence and findings created during the PROSPERH project from systematic and scoping reviews, a feasibility study and a cRCT will be synthesized by project partners to guidelines and recommendations for policymakers to support the promotion of physical and mental health in changing workplaces.
Key policy recommendations from the PROSPERH project will be articulated in Deliverable 9.3 in Month 59 of the project.
Key policy recommendations from the PROSPERH project will be articulated in Deliverable 9.3 in Month 59 of the project.