NCT04251429: SHIFT

Effectiveness of the Healthy Workplace Participatory Program with Peer-led Teams in Public Sector Healthcare Facilities

ENROLLING BY INVITATION NA Last updated 25 March 2025

What this trial tests

NA trial testing CPH-NEW Healthy Workplace Participatory Program in Work-Related Condition in 3,300 participants. Enrolling by invitation.

Timeline

1 September 2016

Primary endpoint
31 August 2026

31 August 2026

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Phase	NA
Status	ENROLLING BY INVITATION
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	crossover
Masking	none
Primary purpose	other
Enrollment	3,300
Start date	1 September 2016
Primary completion	31 August 2026
Estimated completion	31 August 2026

Drugs / interventions tested

• CPH-NEW Healthy Workplace Participatory Program

Conditions studied

• Work-Related Condition — all drugs for Work-Related Condition →
• Burnout, Caregiver — all drugs for Burnout, Caregiver →
• Work-related Injury — all drugs for Work-related Injury →
• Musculoskeletal Pain — all drugs for Musculoskeletal Pain →

Sponsor

University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Work-Related Condition or Burnout, Caregiver. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Safety \& Health through Integrated, Facilitated Teams (SHIFT) is an intervention study to enhance employee health, safety, and well-being in public sector healthcare institutions in New England. The investigators will evaluate the effectiveness of an adapted form of the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace (CPH-NEW) Healthy Workplace Participatory Program (HWPP) for strengthening cohesiveness, engagement, and impact of pre-existing joint labor-management health and safety committees.

The sites are enrolled in three pairs, matched by agency and type of services. For each pair of sites, one will be randomly selected for immediate HWPP coaching. The paired organization will serve as a control until the study mid-point, at which time all sites will be coached. Process evaluations will examine barriers to and facilitators of program uptake, reach, and effectiveness. Survey data and injury records will be examined in intervention and control groups to describe the frequencies of workplace and non-occupational exposures of selected health outcomes.

Publications & conference data

6 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Safety and Health through Integrated, Facilitated Teams (SHIFT): stepped-wedge protocol for prospective, mixed-methods evaluation of the Healthy Workplace Participatory Program.
   Punnett L, Nobrega S, Zhang Y, Rice S, et al · · 2020 · cited 14× · PMID 32993607 · DOI 10.1186/s12889-020-09551-2
2. Use of a Mobile App for the Process Evaluation of an Intervention in Health Care: Development and Usability Study.
   Chin WSY, Kurowski A, Gore R, Chen G, et al · · 2021 · cited 5× · PMID 34709186 · DOI 10.2196/20739
3. What is Thriving? An Arts-based Mixed Methods Sustainability Assessment of a Participatory Health and Safety Program in a Mental Health Facility
   Rice S, Khiem AC, Stacy J, Kurowski AB. · · 2026 · DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9235651/v1
4. Real-Time Process Evaluation of a Participatory Intervention with Healthcare Workers
   Chin WSY, Rice S, Morocho C, Kurowski A, et al · · 2022 · DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2176223/v1
5. Using a Mixed Method Approach to Tailor the Implementation of a Participatory Total Worker Health® Program in Public Healthcare Facilities
   Nobrega SM, Morocho C, Robertson MM, Kurowski A, et al · · 2020 · DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-135537/v1
6. Using a Mixed Method Approach to Tailor the Implementation of a Participatory Total Worker Health® Program in Public Healthcare Facilities
   Nobrega S, Morocho C, Robertson MM, Kurowski A, et al · · 2020 · DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-113352/v1