Workplace interventions to improve truck drivers' health knowledge, behaviours and self-reported outcomes

Marguerite C Sendall; Philip R Crane; Laura McCosker; Herbert C Biggs; Mary-Lou Fleming; Bevan D Rowland

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Workplace interventions to improve truck drivers' health knowledge, behaviours and self-reported outcomes

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Workplace interventions to improve truck drivers' health knowledge, behaviours and self-reported outcomes

Marguerite C Sendall, Philip R Crane, Laura McCosker, Herbert C Biggs, Mary-Lou Fleming and Bevan D Rowland

Road and Transport Research, Vol.25(1), pp.31-43

2016

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Civil Engineering

Transportation and Freight Services

A significant number of Australians are employed in the road transport industry. Research identifies road transport industry workers, particularly truck drivers, as being at increased risk of chronic disease. In part, this is because truck drivers' working environment restricts their capacity to engage in physical activity and limits their access to healthy food options. Workplaces are now widely recognised as effective platforms for health promotion. Research suggests health promotion interventions in blue-collar workplaces can be effective in improving workers' health knowledge, behaviour and outcomes. However, truck drivers' workplaces are their vehicles, and so they are identified as a 'hard-to-reach' group for health promotion. This mixed-methods project implemented health promotion interventions in six road transport industry workplaces in Queensland, Australia. The project achieved improvements in key aspects of truck drivers' health knowledge, health behaviour and self-reported health outcomes. This was underpinned by positive changes in the healthrelated culture of participating workplaces. This project demonstrates Participatory Action Research (PAR) processes - including the development of robust relationships between the project team and workplace managers, changes in workplace culture and the effective contextualisation of interventions - can be successful in improving the health of this 'hard-to-reach' group.

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Title: Workplace interventions to improve truck drivers' health knowledge, behaviours and self-reported outcomes
Authors: Marguerite C Sendall (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Philip R Crane (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Laura McCosker (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Herbert C Biggs (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Mary-Lou Fleming (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Bevan D Rowland (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Publication details: Road and Transport Research, Vol.25(1), pp.31-43
Publisher: A R R B Group Ltd.
Date published: 2016
ISSN: 1037-5783
Organisation Unit: Road Safety Research Collaboration; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sexual Violence Research and Prevention Unit
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450600002621
Output Type: Journal article

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