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We've reported on the importance of a workplace wellness program being well run. A new UK study indicates: Even professional health care workers can use education to help them understand the important qualities of a well run wellness program.

The study, “Workplace wellness using online learning tools in a healthcare setting,” was published in the journal Nurse Education in Practice by authors from the School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK.

The aim of the study was to “to develop and evaluate an online learning tool for use with UK healthcare employees, healthcare educators and healthcare students, to increase knowledge of workplace wellness as an important public health issue.”

The tool “focused on six key areas relating to workplace wellness: work-related stress, musculoskeletal disorders, diet and nutrition, physical activity, smoking and alcohol consumption. Each key area provided current evidence-based information on causes and consequences, access to UK government reports and national statistics, and guidance on actions that could be taken to improve health within a workplace setting.”

Interestingly, given the fact that the population was health care employees, “baseline knowledge of workplace wellness was poor,” according to the report. However, “knowledge significantly improved from baseline to post-intervention, with knowledge increases evident for all included topics areas.”

In other words, even for health care workers, knowledge about key aspects of workplace wellness improved with information.