Publications by authors named "Erin L D Seaverson"
Objective: Given the importance of mental health and well-being assessments to employers' efforts to optimize employee health and well-being, this paper reviews mental health assessments that have utility in the workplace.
Data Source: A review of publicly available mental health and well-being assessments was conducted with a primary focus on burnout, general mental health and well-being, loneliness, psychological safety, resilience, and stress.
Inclusion Criteria: Assessments had to be validated for adult populations; available in English as a stand-alone tool; have utility in an employer setting; and not have a primary purpose of diagnosing a mental health condition.
Purpose: To develop an index of participation in workplace health and well-being programs and assess its relationship with health risk status.
Design: Study design comprised a retrospective longitudinal analysis of employee health risk assessment (HRA) and program participation data.
Setting: Data from 6 companies that implemented health and well-being programs from 2014 to 2016.
Purpose: To examine the relationship between sleep habits and employee productivity.
Design: Cross-sectional health risk assessment analysis.
Setting: Employer-sponsored health and well-being programs.
Objective: Assess the influence of participation in a population health management (PHM) program on health care costs.
Methods: A quasi-experimental study relied on logistic and ordinary least squares regression models to compare the costs of program participants with those of nonparticipants, while controlling for differences in health care costs and utilization, demographics, and health status. Propensity score models were developed and analyses were weighted by inverse propensity scores to control for selection bias.
Purpose: Examine the long-term impact of a telephone-based weight management program among participants recruited from worksite settings.
Design: Pre/post quasi-experimental design comparing weight loss and related behaviors between program completers and noncompleters.
Setting: Ten large private-sector and public-sector employers.
Many health promotion interventions have been developed and tested in recent years. Practitioners and researchers must continue to explore how various program delivery modalities can be used effectively and efficiently to optimize program outcomes. A sample of 6,055 participants was drawn from 10 large employers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To examine the impact of financial incentives, communications strategy, and worksite culture on health risk assessment (HRA) participation rates.
Design: A cross-sectional study design was used to examine factors that influence employee participation, including incentive value, incentive design, communications strategy, and worksite culture.
Setting: Large private-sector and public-sector employers.
Objective: To assess the prevalence of "best practice" program components across a select sample of organizations, and to explore differences in engagement rates and health risk reduction between organizations using "best-practice" and "common-practice" health management approaches.
Methods: Using a retrospective approach, researchers assigned organizations to a "best practice" or "common-practice" group based on well-defined criteria. The study examined group differences in employee health assessment participation rates, health coaching program participation and completion rates, and organizational-level health risk reduction.