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dc.contributor.authorSendall, Marguerite C
dc.contributor.authorCrane, Phil
dc.contributor.authorMcCosker, Laura K
dc.contributor.authorBiggs, Herbert C
dc.contributor.authorFleming, MaryLou
dc.contributor.authorRowland, Bevan
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-16T00:49:28Z
dc.date.available2021-12-16T00:49:28Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.issn1037-5783
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/410859
dc.description.abstractA 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.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherARRB GROUP LTD
dc.publisher.urihttps://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/INFORMIT.292312497324238
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom31
dc.relation.ispartofpageto43
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalRoad & Transport Research
dc.relation.ispartofvolume25
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCivil engineering
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4005
dc.subject.keywordsScience & Technology
dc.subject.keywordsTechnology
dc.subject.keywordsTransportation
dc.subject.keywordsConstruction Workers
dc.subject.keywordsPromotion
dc.titleWorkplace interventions to improve truck drivers' health knowledge, behaviours and self-reported outcomes
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationSendall, MC; Crane, P; McCosker, LK; Biggs, HC; Fleming, M; Rowland, B, Workplace interventions to improve truck drivers' health knowledge, behaviours and self-reported outcomes, Road & Transport Research, 2016, 25 (1), pp. 31-43
dc.date.updated2021-12-16T00:44:09Z
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gro.griffith.authorMcCosker, Laura


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