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Lindsay J. Della, MS¹, David M. DeJoy, PhD¹, Mark Wilson, HSD¹, David Shechter, PhD², Ron Z. Goetzel, PhD³, Ronald J. Ozminkowski, PhD², Jennifer Schneider, MPH, PhD², Enid Chung Roemer, PhD³, and Maryam J. Tabrizi, MS, CHES². (1) Health Promotion and Behavior, University of Georgia, 300 River Road, Athens, GA 30602, 7065830692, ldella76@uga.edu, (2) Health and Productivity Research, Thomson Medstat, 5425 Hollister Ave. #140, Santa Barbara, CA 93111, (3) Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, Cornell University Institute for Policy Research, 4301 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008

Worksite health promotion is increasingly recognized as a promising approach to chronic disease prevention. As such, it is critical for researchers to be able to gauge management's initial commitment to health promotion, as well as to be able to track changes in its commitment over time. The Leading by Example (LBE) questionnaire was developed to help quantify management/employee perceptions of the value of integrating health into organizational strategy. The LBE presented in this discussion is a modified version of the original (Partnership for Prevention, 2005). Specifically, this modified LBE queries respondents' perceptions and understanding of the benefits of a strategic health orientation vis-à-vis cost/productivity outcomes (i.e., the value of integrating health objectives and outcomes into organizational objectives and overall business goals). This session will provide an overview of the LBE; a discussion of how the instrument is being used in two federally funded worksite studies; and an assessment of the validity of this instrument. Initial analyses indicate that the instrument is a valid and useful tool for assessing management/employee perceptions of organizational commitment to health in the workplace. Specifically, factor analyses support construct and discriminant validity, extracting four factors that explained 69.8% of the variation in the data. Item loadings and internal consistencies for all items and subscales identified by the four factors posted acceptable statistics for exploratory research (ranging from .595 to .869 and from .61 to .82, respectively). Based on these findings, strengths and limitations of administering the LBE in a workplace setting will be highlighted.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will articulate the importance of organizational and leadership commitment in achieving program success.
• Participants will learn how to utilize the LBE questionnaire to assess support for health promotion interventions in their organizations.
• Participants will describe the strengths and limitations of administering the LBE questionnaire in the field.
• Participants will understand the reliability and validity of the LBE, as used in this context.

Keywords: Worksite, Obesity

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