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Table 1 Curriculum lessons, activitiesn and individual and team goals

From: The COMmunity of Practice And Safety Support (COMPASS) total worker health™ study among home care workers: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Session activities

Individual and team goals

Session 1: Fruits and vegetables

 

• Barriers to eating fruits and vegetables

• Individual goal: tracking eating at least five servings each day or substituting for a sugary beverage each day

• Serving size quiz

• Team goal: pedometer challenge (team divided into two squads)

• Nutrition jeopardy

Session 2: Back to healthy postures

 

• Healthy spine (ship mast analogy)

• Individual goal: track neural spine position several times a day or attend relevant Oregon Home Care Commission (OHCC) class

• Practice with partner finding neutral spine

• Team goal: all do neutral spine task tracking

• Practice lifting postures

• Tools to avoid back strain

Session 3: Functional fitness

 

• Core strengthen

• Individual goal: pair with teammate to exercise or core exercises everywhere tracking

• Sitting posture

• Team goal: repeat pedometer challenge

• Practice do anywhere core exercises

• ABLE (abdomen, back and leg exercises) stickers

• Benefits of exercise quiz

Session 4: Take a load off with tools

 

• Traps that lead to injuries

• Individual goal: watch video or attend OHCC class on tools

• Common injuries and how they occur

• Team goal: all assess hazards in consumer-employer’s home

• Low tech tool show-and-tell and practice

• On tools

Session 5: Communicate for hazard correction

 

• Role play communicating with consumer-employer

• Individual goal: interview consume-employer about what makes good and bad days or use the PRAISE communication strategy with consumer-employer

• Learn PRAISE (Plan, Respect, Ask open-ended questions, I statements, Simply listen, Express understanding) mnemonic

• Team goal: all talk with consumer-employer about hazard

• Plan interaction

• Role play interaction

Session 6: Mental health

 

• Practice total body relaxation

• Individual goal: choose relaxation or three blessing activity

• Three blessing activities

• Team goal: work on something from previous sessions

• Review of session topics and progress on goals