Archive for June, 2009
Wellness Coach : Building a Company Exercise Team
Growing a Organization Exercise Team From Nine-To-Five
People spend a lot of time at their job, and work environments are full of stress. Downsizing, mergers, growing work requisites and extended hours take their toll on employee health.
It can be measured in rising absenteeism and growing health costs. It is time to reverse the trend. Establishing a [...]
Wellness Coach : Advantages Of Worksite Wellness Programs
Companies are expected to be responsible in every way. They protect the environment, contribute to local area projects and pay taxes. They also are concerned about the health of their staff members.
One of the benefits of wellness programs is they give workers every opportunity to improve their quality of life both at work and after [...]
Wellness Coach : Measuring Program Results
Information to evaluate your program comes from routinely gathered evaluation and follow-up data of your program that look at process and outcomes of your program.
The Worker Health Program has available a computerized case-management system which includes queries that allow simple assessment of process and outcome results at any point in time.
Process Evaluation
Process assessment looks at [...]
Wellness Coach : The keys to a successful wellness program are persistent one-on-one outreach and follow-up counseling to encourage health improvement, adherence to treatment regimens, changes in lifestyle behaviors, and to prevent relapse. Periodic outreach and follow-up procedures support workers with a safety net which keeps them involved in the program and prevents treatment dropout and relapse.
Counselors should follow up on employees at least every 6 months throughout the career of the employee at the workplace. The objectives of follow-up are to:
• Involve employees who have health risks in treatment and risk reduction programs.
• Involve all workers in health improvement programs and workplace-wide wellness activities.
• Support employees in carrying out [...]
Wellness Coach : Menu Approach of Services
The menu approach offers workers a range of options to support lifestyle changes. It allows people to choose the kind of help that suits their schedules and preferences.
The four basic types of programs include:
• Classes
• Minigroups
• Guided self help
• Individual counseling
Classes
Classes (8 or more) can be an effective means of offering education and social [...]
Wellness Coach : Stress Management
The educational program should include approaches to stress awareness/reduction at the environmental level and at the individual level.
Social, physical, and organization 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 [...]
Wellness Coach : Nutrition Education
A diet education program ought to include a nutritional needs assessment, education counseling, and referral as crucial.
Educational sessions and materials should include the following information:
• The relationship of nutrition and chronic diseases
• Improving eating patterns
• Relationship of nutrition and proper weight maintenance
• Exercise
• Stress
• Blood Pressure
• Cholesterol
• Diabetes and other chronic diseases.
• Nutritionally accurate information [...]
Wellness Coach : Smoking Cessation
It is recommended that tobacco 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 modification practices. Useful techniques include starting reasons for quitting, understanding the smoking habit, various techniques for stopping and remaining a non-smoker, overcoming the [...]
Wellness Coach : Exercise Programs
Participatory fitness programs must include education on benefits 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 exercise options. Discussion and practice of safe principles of exercise – warm up, cool down, frequency, intensity, duration, flexibility and strength [...]
Wellness Coach : Weight Control
Program offered is consistent with scientific and healthcare recommendations for weight loss, reflects a multi-disciplinary approach which offers four components: behavioral, exercise, diet, and maintenance, and is in accordance with the document Guidance For Treatment Of Adult Obesity. It includes:
• Screening to verify that the attendant has no medical or psychological conditions which would make [...]