Methodology

What Was Involved?

There were three elements of work involved in collecting interventions for the Catalogue:

  1. establishing criteria
  2. searching for possible interventions
  3. gathering intervention information and materials

1. Establishing criteria

The Well-Regarded Intervention Advisory Group worked together to construct the Intervention Criteria. The criteria were used to decide if an intervention should be included in the Catalogue.

Note: Unlike, the Catalogue of Situational Assessment Tools, which represents the results of a one-time detailed "recommended practice" review, the Catalogue of Well-Regarded Interventions will be enhanced through the on-going application of the seven inclusion criteria listed above. More information can be found about the review process used for the Situational Assessment Tool Catalogue by checking out the catalogue’s methodology section.

Each intervention needed to meet each of the following seven criteria:

  1. Is accessible to workplace practitioners in Ontario, either electronically directly from the source or via THCU, or on paper directly from the source.
  2. Available in English.
  3. Is applicable to the workplace setting and is relevant to CWHP.1
  4. Addresses at least one of the catalogue topics.2
  5. There is sufficient and relevant information available to support local adaptation/adoption.3
  6. There is well documented evaluation evidence to show that the program has a positive outcome and/or impact results in that setting using sound evaluation practices. Interventions which have sound process evaluation results and which appear promising are also included and labeled as having had a process evaluation only.
  7. Is the program still relevant?  Interventions are currently being used and have been developed or updated since 2000.

You can check to see if your intervention meets the criteria by nominating your intervention.

 

2. Searching for possible interventions

THCU’s Workplace Project staff searched for interventions using the following mechanisms.

THCU conducted an internet search using "workplace health" along with following terms:

 

3. Gathering intervention materials

THCU adapted the “Canadian Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Initiatives Database” Questionnaire in order to collect detailed information about each intervention that met the seven criteria. THCU then worked with the source organization to complete the questionnaire and create an intervention summary, as well as gather the relevant resources for each intervention.

 

Footnotes

  1. As defined in previous THCU documents, workplace health interventions are categorized into three groups: occupational health and safety (OHS); voluntary health practices; and organizational change (OC).

  2. Healthy Eating; Physical Activity; Tobacco Use Prevention; Reproductive Health; Sexual Health Promotion; Work-life Balance; Breastfeeding Promotion; Healthy Environments; Occupational Health & Safety; Sun Safety; Violence Prevention; Hypertension Prevention; Chronic Disease Prevention; Substance Abuse Prevention; Healthy Weights Promotion/Obesity Prevention; Mental Health Promotion; Shift Work; Infectious Disease Control; Organizational Culture

  3. Information available to support local adaptation/adoption includes information about how to implement the intervention (e.g., time and money resources required, key leaders to be involved, steps to implement), copies of materials, information about the context the program was used in, information to help users decide if it fits within their workplace, etc.