TY - JOUR
T1 - Development and validation of the policies, opportunities, initiatives and notable topics (POINTS) audit for campuses and worksites
AU - Horacek, Tanya M.
AU - Simon, Marlei
AU - Yildirim, Elif Dede
AU - White, Adrienne A.
AU - Shelnutt, Karla P.
AU - Riggsbee, Kristin
AU - Olfert, Melissa D.
AU - Morrell, Jesse Stabile
AU - Mathews, Anne E.
AU - Zhou, Wenjun
AU - Kidd, Tandalayo
AU - Kattelmann, Kendra
AU - Greene, Geoffrey
AU - Franzen-Castle, Lisa
AU - Colby, Sarah
AU - Byrd-Bredbenner, Carol
AU - Brown, Onikia
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: Funding provided by Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Grant no. 2014-67001-21851 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Get FRUVED: A peer-led, train-the-trainer social marketing intervention to increase fruit and vegetable intake and prevent young adult weight gain, A2101. Partial funding was also provided by South Dakota State Agriculture Experiment Station. The funders had no role in the design, analysis, or writing of this article.
Funding Information:
provided by Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Grant no. 2014-67001-21851 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Get FRUVED: A peer-led, train-the-trainer social marketing intervention to increase fruit and vegetable intake and prevent young adult weight gain, A2101. Partial funding was also provided by South Dakota State Agriculture Experiment Station. The funders had no role in the design, analysis, or writing of this article. Acknowledgments: We would like to acknowledge (1) the technical support for data collection and training provided by Megan Mullin, Laura Brown, and Heather Brubacker; and (2) all of the research assistants at each institution who collected data.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2019/3/1
Y1 - 2019/3/1
N2 - Background: Workplace or campus wellness/obesity-prevention policies and initiatives can improve health. Research tools to assess worksite or campus policies/initiatives are scarce. Thus, the aim of this research is to develop and validate the policies, opportunities, initiatives, and notable topics (POINTS) audit. Methods: POINTS was developed and refined via expert review, pilot-testing, and field testing. Trained researchers completed a web-based review from a student-focus or employee-focus regarding 34 health-promoting topics for colleges. Each topic was evaluated on a 0–2 scale: 0 = no policy/initiative, 1 = initiatives, 2 = written policy. When a written policy was detected, additional policy support questions (administered, monitored, reviewed) were completed. Results: Cronbach’s Alpha for the student-focused POINTS audit was α = 0.787 (34 items, possible points = 65), and for the employee-focused POINTS audit was α = 0.807 (26 items, possible points = 50). A total of 115 student-focused and 33 employee-focused audits were completed. Although there was little evidence of policy presence beyond stimulant standards (smoking and alcohol), there were extensive examples of health initiatives. The student-focused POINTS audit was validated using the Healthier Campus Initiative’s survey. Conclusions: POINTS is a web-based audit tool that is valid and useful for pre-assessment, advocacy, benchmarking, and tracking policies for health and well-being for students (campus) and employees (worksite).
AB - Background: Workplace or campus wellness/obesity-prevention policies and initiatives can improve health. Research tools to assess worksite or campus policies/initiatives are scarce. Thus, the aim of this research is to develop and validate the policies, opportunities, initiatives, and notable topics (POINTS) audit. Methods: POINTS was developed and refined via expert review, pilot-testing, and field testing. Trained researchers completed a web-based review from a student-focus or employee-focus regarding 34 health-promoting topics for colleges. Each topic was evaluated on a 0–2 scale: 0 = no policy/initiative, 1 = initiatives, 2 = written policy. When a written policy was detected, additional policy support questions (administered, monitored, reviewed) were completed. Results: Cronbach’s Alpha for the student-focused POINTS audit was α = 0.787 (34 items, possible points = 65), and for the employee-focused POINTS audit was α = 0.807 (26 items, possible points = 50). A total of 115 student-focused and 33 employee-focused audits were completed. Although there was little evidence of policy presence beyond stimulant standards (smoking and alcohol), there were extensive examples of health initiatives. The student-focused POINTS audit was validated using the Healthier Campus Initiative’s survey. Conclusions: POINTS is a web-based audit tool that is valid and useful for pre-assessment, advocacy, benchmarking, and tracking policies for health and well-being for students (campus) and employees (worksite).
KW - College
KW - Environmental audit
KW - Health promotion policy
KW - Web-based assessment
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U2 - 10.3390/ijerph16050778
DO - 10.3390/ijerph16050778
M3 - Article
C2 - 30836633
AN - SCOPUS:85062622524
VL - 16
JO - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
JF - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
SN - 1661-7827
IS - 5
M1 - 778
ER -