Worksite Health PromotionWHHIP+FFC 2026NCT07785947
Intervention to Increase Physical Activity and Wellbeing Among Staff and Residents in Assisted Living Facilities
A study testing WHHIP and FFC in people with Worksite Health Promotion and Lifestyle Risk Reduction, run by University of Maryland, Baltimore at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
The purpose of the study is to test a program that aims to help staff increase wellness behaviors and test the impact of this program on staff and work outcomes. We will also assess the impact of the program on residents' physical activity and function. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Worksite Health Promotion, Lifestyle Risk Reduction, Occupational Burnout
- What is being tested?
- WHHIP and FFC
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 344 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- 1 Nov 2026to 30 Apr 2031
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- Not yet: the study is under way
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 years and older
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Adult, Older adult
Staff Inclusion Criteria:
- 18 years of age or older
- employed by the assisted living community in a direct care role for at least 9 months
- not pregnant
- speak and understand English
Staff Exclusion Criteria:
- do not pass the Evaluation to Sign Consent test
- do not pass the EASY exercise safety screener
Resident Inclusion Criteria:
- 55 years of age or older
- speak and understand English
- live in the participating assisting living community at the time of recruitment
Resident Exclusion Criteria:
- N/A
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.
United States1 site
University of Maryland School of Nursing
Baltimore, Maryland, 21201
Kelly Doran, 410-706-5470, kdoran@umaryland.edu
About this study
Official title: The Worksite Heart Health Improvement Project + Function Focused Care (WHHIP+FFC) Intervention to Increase Physical Activity and Wellbeing Among Staff and Residents in Assisted Living Facilities
The purpose of the study is to test a program that aims to help staff increase wellness behaviors and test the impact of this program on staff and work outcomes. We will also assess the impact of the program on residents' physical activity and function.
Read the detailed description
The Worksite Heart Health Improvement Project + Function Focused Care (WHIPP+FFC) is an innovative worksite wellness program to reduce sedentary behavior for staff and residents in assisted living. The WHHIP + FFC uses the social ecological model and theory of self-efficacy to provide interventions across multiple levels (interpersonal, intrapersonal, organizational and policy) that reduce barriers for physical activity engagement in assisted living communities. Our goal in this study is to improve: workers and residents' physical activity engagement; residents' function; workers' blood pressure; workers' sleep quality and hours; workers' body composition, workers' waist circumference, workers' performance of function focused care activities; workers' intention to leave; workers' psychological symptoms; workers' burnout levels; and facility level staff turnover.
- Conditions
- Worksite Health Promotion, Lifestyle Risk Reduction, Occupational Burnout, Healthcare Workers, Long Term Care Facility, Physical Activity
- Being tested
- WHHIP, FFC
- Medical subject headings
- Risk Reduction Behavior, Burnout, Professional, Motor Activity
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
WHHIPBehavioural
Worksite wellness interventions designed to increase physical activity for staff and reduce barriers to physical activity (such as job stress).
FFCBehavioural
Interventions designed to increase workers' engagement and encouragement of function focused care with residents
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| WHHIP with FFC interventions | Experimental | Step 1, Identify a stakeholder team and identify and train an AL champion to work with the interventionist to provide the WHHIP+FFC.
Step 2, Environment and policy assessment for PA changes. Step 3, Education and goal setting. Step 4, Mentoring and motivation of staff and residents. Receives: Behavioral: WHHIP; Behavioral: FFC |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Sedentary, light, moderate and vigorous physical activity
via an Accelerometer for staff and residents
Measured: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, and 12 months
Secondary outcomes (15)
Sleep duration and quality
via an Accelerometer for staff
Measured: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6, months, 9 months and 12 months
Blood pressure
For staff
Measured: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
Body mass index (BMI)
For staff weight and height will be used to report BMI in kg/m2
Measured: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
Waist circumference
For staff
Measured: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
Visceral fat
For staff will be calculated via a Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA)
Measured: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
Body fat
For staff will be calculated via a Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA)
Measured: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
Muscle mass
For staff will be calculated via a Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA)
Measured: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
Global Physical Activity questionnaire (GPQA)
For staff to assess sedentary time as well as physical activity data during work, transit, and leisure time
Measured: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6, months, 9 months and 12 months
Oldenburn Burnout Inventory (OBI)
For staff to assess overall burnout severity as well as exhaustion and disengagement severity.
Measured: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6, months, 9 months, and 12 months
Short form of the Depression, Anxiety, And Stress Scale (DASS)
For staff to assess overall physiological symptoms as well as depression, anxiety and stress symptoms
Measured: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months and 12 months
Turnover Intention Scale (TIS)
For staff to assess likelihood of leaving their worksite and positive or protective factors against job turnover.
Measured: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6, months, 9 months, and 12 months
Function focused care (FFC) check list
Staff will be observed to assess FFC behavior utilization
Measured: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6, months, 9 months, and 12 months
Percent of facility-level direct care worker staff turnover
Reported by the facility
Measured: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6, months, 9 months, and 12 months
Number of physical activity sessions residents attended
The facility will be asked to report the number of physical activity sessions residents attend
Measured: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6, months, 9 months, and 12 months
Barthel Index
For residents to assess resident function
Measured: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6, months, 9 months, and 12 months
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted25 Aug 2026
- Study start1 Nov 2026 (estimated)
- Primary completion30 Apr 2031 (estimated)
- Study completion30 Apr 2031 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Worksite Health PromotionStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by University of Maryland, BaltimoreThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
- Allocation
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Model description
- Incomplete stepped wedge cluster randomized trial design with two pre implementation timepoints (study months -3 and 0) and four timepoints during the intervention (study months 3, 6, 9, and 12).
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 344 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- University of Maryland, Baltimore
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Kelly Doran, University of Maryland, Baltimore
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT07785947
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- HP-00119100
- Other IDs
- 1R01NR021880-01A1
- Acronym
- WHHIP+FFC 2026
- Status last verified
- Aug 2026
- First submitted
- 17 Aug 2026
- Last updated
- 25 Aug 2026
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- Yes: De-identified raw demographic and outcome data that underlie results in publications
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 25 Aug 2026. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- The Worksite Heart Health Improvement Project + Function Focused Care (WHHIP+FFC) Intervention to Increase Physical Activity and Wellbeing Among Staff and Residents in Assisted Living Facilities
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT07785947
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- WHHIP+FFC 2026 / HP-00119100
- Conditions
- Worksite Health Promotion, Lifestyle Risk Reduction, Occupational Burnout, Healthcare Workers, Long Term Care Facility, Physical Activity
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Not yet recruiting
- Enrolment
- 344 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- University of Maryland, BaltimoreUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
- Study start
- 1 Nov 2026 (estimated)
- Primary completion
- 30 Apr 2031 (estimated)
- Study completion
- 30 Apr 2031 (estimated)
- First posted
- 25 Aug 2026 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
The purpose of the study is to test a program that aims to help staff increase wellness behaviors and test the impact of this program on staff and work outcomes. We will also assess the impact of the program on residents' physical activity and function.
Detailed description
The Worksite Heart Health Improvement Project + Function Focused Care (WHIPP+FFC) is an innovative worksite wellness program to reduce sedentary behavior for staff and residents in assisted living. The WHHIP + FFC uses the social ecological model and theory of self-efficacy to provide interventions across multiple levels (interpersonal, intrapersonal, organizational and policy) that reduce barriers for physical activity engagement in assisted living communities. Our goal in this study is to improve: workers and residents' physical activity engagement; residents' function; workers' blood pressure; workers' sleep quality and hours; workers' body composition, workers' waist circumference, workers' performance of function focused care activities; workers' intention to leave; workers' psychological symptoms; workers' burnout levels; and facility level staff turnover.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
- Allocation
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 1
- Model description
- Incomplete stepped wedge cluster randomized trial design with two pre implementation timepoints (study months -3 and 0) and four timepoints during the intervention (study months 3, 6, 9, and 12).
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| WHHIP with FFC interventions | Experimental | Behavioral: WHHIP, Behavioral: FFCStep 1, Identify a stakeholder team and identify and train an AL champion to work with the interventionist to provide the WHHIP+FFC. Step 2, Environment and policy assessment for PA changes. Step 3, Education and goal setting. Step 4, Mentoring and motivation of staff and residents. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| WHHIPWorksite wellness interventions designed to increase physical activity for staff and reduce barriers to physical activity (such as job stress). | Behavioural | WHHIP with FFC interventions |
| FFCInterventions designed to increase workers' engagement and encouragement of function focused care with residents | Behavioural | WHHIP with FFC interventions |
Primary outcome
Sedentary, light, moderate and vigorous physical activity
Time frame: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, and 12 months
via an Accelerometer for staff and residents
15 secondary outcomes
Sleep duration and quality
Time frame: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6, months, 9 months and 12 months
Blood pressure
Time frame: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
Body mass index (BMI)
Time frame: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
Waist circumference
Time frame: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
Visceral fat
Time frame: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
Body fat
Time frame: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
Muscle mass
Time frame: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
Global Physical Activity questionnaire (GPQA)
Time frame: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6, months, 9 months and 12 months
Oldenburn Burnout Inventory (OBI)
Time frame: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6, months, 9 months, and 12 months
Short form of the Depression, Anxiety, And Stress Scale (DASS)
Time frame: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months and 12 months
Turnover Intention Scale (TIS)
Time frame: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6, months, 9 months, and 12 months
Function focused care (FFC) check list
Time frame: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6, months, 9 months, and 12 months
Percent of facility-level direct care worker staff turnover
Time frame: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6, months, 9 months, and 12 months
Number of physical activity sessions residents attended
Time frame: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6, months, 9 months, and 12 months
Barthel Index
Time frame: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6, months, 9 months, and 12 months
Results and safety
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 25 Aug 2026.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: Yes. De-identified raw demographic and outcome data that underlie results in publications
Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part.
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing WHHIP and FFC in people with Worksite Health Promotion and Lifestyle Risk Reduction, run by University of Maryland, Baltimore at 1 site in United States.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: opening soon, as of the sponsor's last update on 25 Aug 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
Contact Kelly Doran (410-706-5470, kdoran@umaryland.edu), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Sedentary, light, moderate and vigorous physical activity (time frame: -3 months, 0, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, and 12 months). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 25 Aug 2026; AzTrials last refreshed its copy on 6 Nov 2026.