title: Assessment of a Worksite Health Promotion Readiness Checklist.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the utility of a Worksite Health Promotion Readiness Checklist (WRCL) designed to evaluate the worksite's readiness for implementing health promotion and health protection programs.
  
  
  METHODS
  The WRCL was pilot tested in worksites with (WHPy) and without (WHPn) health promotion programs. The two parts of WRCL scores (observational and administrative) for WHPy and WHPn sites were compared within and between the worksites to establish WRCL utility and sensitivity.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Observational WRCL (completed by two observers per site) demonstrated high interrater reliability (P < 0.05) for most items. Administrative WRCL (completed by three administrators per site) showed some discrepant responses between administrators. Overall, both sections of WRCL produced higher scores for WHPy sites.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  WRCL could be a valid and reliable instrument to measure readiness of a worksite toward health promotion and health protection programs.
authors.affiliation: Allied Health Sciences/Health Promotion, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-2101, USA. pouran.faghri@uconn.edu
authors.forename: Pouran D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Faghri
authors.forename: Rajashree
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kotejoshyer
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cherniack
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Reeves
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Punnett
mesh_terms: D057189:Checklist; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D009511:New England; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000458:organization & administration; D016272:Occupational Health; D009786:Occupational Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D015279:Organizational Culture; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017132:Workplace / Q000458:organization & administration*
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