TAKE HEART-II - REPLICATION OF A WORKSITE HEALTH PROMOTION TRIAL

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a revised wor ksite health promotion program that featured an employee steering comm ittee/menu approach to intervention. The ''Take Heart II'' program was evaluated using a quasi-experimental matched-pair design with worksit e as the unit of analysis. Experimental and control worksites did not differ on baseline organizational or employee demographic variables or on baseline levels of dependent variables. Outcome and process result s revealed consistent, but modest effects favoring intervention worksi tes on most measures. Cross-sectional analyses generally failed to pro duce statistically significant intervention effects, but cohort analys es revealed significant beneficial effects of the Take Heart II interv ention on eating patterns, behavior change attempts, and perceived soc ial support. Neither analysis detected a beneficial effect of interven tion on cholesterol levels.