Assessing the Role of Collective Efficacy Beliefs During Participative Occupational Health Interventions.

Marco Kuchenbaur,Richard Peter

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2021.797838

Abstract

Background: For group-based participatory interventions in the context of occupational health, no questionnaires exist to assess the participants' active engagement in the interventions. On the basis of the construct of collective efficacy beliefs, this study has developed a questionnaire with which the group-related efficacy beliefs can be assessed as a precondition for participants actively engaging in participative interventions.Methods: Participants were drawn from a two-arm cluster-randomized intervention study to fill out the questionnaire. A Factor analysis and an initial psychometric calibration were performed. In a second step, the group-related properties of the questionnaire were validated using a Multilevel analysis.Results: The factorial structure of the questionnaire is consistent with the theory of efficacy beliefs according to A. Bandura. Furthermore, the collective efficacy expectations of the interventions' participants are lowered in the absence of appreciation and support in the psychosocial environment of the worksite.Conclusions: Assessing participant's quality of interventional activity in participatory interventions by collective efficacy can be valuable in understanding the amount of interventional activity. In addition, it is recommended to consider the influence of the worksite's psychosocial environment on collective efficacy beliefs when implementing participatory interventions.Clinical Trial Registration: Registration trial DRKS00021138 on the German Registry of Clinical Studies (DRKS), retrospectively registered on 25 March, 2020.

Highlights

An increased interest in process evaluations has emerged in recent years, in complex occupational health intervention studies
As in participatory occupational health interventions, goal achievement oftentimes require the cooperation of all participants over a longer period of time, an interdependent effort by all participants is necessary for intervention activities [6]
By using multilevel analysis (MLA), we aim to reveal the multilevel character of our questionnaire by decomposing its variance components that are determined by factors of the higher-level social structure of the worksite and of individual factors of the participants

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Introduction

An increased interest in process evaluations has emerged in recent years, in complex occupational health intervention studies. This is due to the fact that process evaluations can be highly valuable for understanding how discrepancies between the expected and observed outcomes can be related to context and process of implementation of interventions [1]. For group-based participatory interventions in the context of occupational health, no questionnaires exist to assess the participants’ active engagement in the interventions. On the basis of the construct of collective efficacy beliefs, this study has developed a questionnaire with which the group-related efficacy beliefs can be assessed as a precondition for participants actively engaging in participative interventions

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