title: Performance Against WELCOA's Worksite Health Promotion Benchmarks Across Years Among Selected US Organizations.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this study was to quantify the performance of organizations' worksite health promotion (WHP) activities against the benchmarking criteria included in the Well Workplace Checklist (WWC).
  
  
  METHODS
  The Wellness Council of America (WELCOA) developed a tool to assess WHP with its 100-item WWC, which represents WELCOA's 7 performance benchmarks.
  
  
  METHODS
  Workplaces.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study includes a convenience sample of organizations who completed the checklist from 2008 to 2015. The sample size was 4643 entries from US organizations.
  
  
  METHODS
  The WWC includes demographic questions, general questions about WHP programs, and scales to measure the performance against the WELCOA 7 benchmarks.
  
  
  METHODS
  Descriptive analyses of WWC items were completed separately for each year of the study period.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The majority of the organizations represented each year were multisite, multishift, medium- to large-sized companies mostly in the services industry. Despite yearly changes in participating organizations, results across the WELCOA 7 benchmark scores were consistent year to year. Across all years, benchmarks that organizations performed the lowest were senior-level support, data collection, and programming; wellness teams and supportive environments were the highest scoring benchmarks.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In an era marked with economic swings and health-care reform, it appears that organizations are staying consistent in their performance across these benchmarks. The WWC could be useful for organizations, practitioners, and researchers in assessing the quality of WHP programs.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Public Health Education, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA.
authors.forename: GracieLee M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Weaver
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Public Health Education, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Brandon N
authors.initials: BN
authors.lastname: Mendenhall
authors.affiliation: 2 The Wellness Council of America, Omaha, NE, USA.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hunnicutt
authors.affiliation: 2 The Wellness Council of America, Omaha, NE, USA.
authors.forename: Ryan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Picarella
authors.affiliation: 2 The Wellness Council of America, Omaha, NE, USA.
authors.forename: Brittanie
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Leffelman
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Public Health Education, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Perko
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Public Health Education, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Bibeau
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D057189:Checklist; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014481:United States; D017132:Workplace / Q000458:organization & administration
keywords: awareness; interventions; population health; supportive environments; workplace