In today’s fast paced world our busy lives leave little time, energy, or motivation for individuals to focus on their own needs.
Those that do seek to improve their wellness traditionally turn to friends, family, experts and published materials for support and information. All too often those support structures fail to make a lasting difference.
This [...]
Information to evaluate your program comes from routinely gathered screening and follow-up data of your program that look at process and outcomes of your program.
The Staff Member Health Program has available a computerized case-management system which includes queries that allow easy assessment of process and outcome results at any point in time.
Process Evaluation
Process examination looks [...]
The keys to a successful wellness program are persistent one-on-one outreach and follow-up counseling to encourage health improvement, adherence to treatment programs, changes in lifestyle behaviors, and to prevent relapse.
Periodic outreach and follow-up procedures provide employees with a safety net which keeps them involved in the program and avoids treatment dropout and relapse.
Counselors ought [...]
The menu approach offers staff members a range of choices to support lifestyle changes. It authorizes people to pick the type of help that suits their schedules and preferences.
The four basic kinds of programs include –
• Courses
• Minigroups
• Guided self help
• Individual counseling
Classes
Classes (8 or more) could be an effective [...]
The educational program should include approaches to stress awareness/reduction at the environmental level and at the individual level.
Social, physical, and organizational stressors ought to be explained and methods to ease or elevate stressors ought to be presented.
At the individual level how changes in attitudes and behaviors help one to cope with stressors; learning techniques [...]
A nutrition education program should include a nutritional needs assessment, education counseling, and referral as necessary.
Educational sessions and materials ought to include the following information –
• the relationship of nutrition and chronic illnesss
• Improving consuming patterns
• Relationship of nutrition and proper weight maintenance
• Exercise
• Stress
• Blood pressure
• Cholesterol [...]
It’s advised that smoking cessation programs subscribe to the Code of Practice for Smoking Cessation Programs.
Smoking cessation programs should be multi-component with a focus on skills to build positive voluntary behavior change practices.
Useful techniques include establishing reasons for quitting, understanding the smoking habit, various techniques for stopping and remaining a non-smoker, overcoming the problems [...]
Participatory exercise programs ought to include education on advantages of regular exercise and risks of a sedentary lifestyle, its impact on cardiovascular health and diseases, its relationship with weight control and stress management, and aerobic activity options.
Discussion and practice of safe principles of exercise – warm up, cool down, frequency, intensity, duration, flexibility and [...]
