Exploring and Developing the Workplace Health Culture Scale in Taiwan

Yao-Tsung Chang; Feng-Jen Tsai; Chien-Chih Kuo; Ching-Ying Yeh; Ruey-Yu Chen

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2019.00397

Exploring and Developing the Workplace Health Culture Scale in Taiwan

Front Public Health. 2020 Jan 10:7:397. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00397. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Yao-Tsung Chang¹, Feng-Jen Tsai², Chien-Chih Kuo³, Ching-Ying Yeh¹, Ruey-Yu Chen¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
² PhD Program in Global Health and Health Security, and Master Program in Global Health and Development, College of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
³ Department of Psychology, National Cheng-Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Abstract

Background: The aim of this study was to develop and validate the workplace health culture scale. Methods: This paper collected and re-organized current definitions about health culture from literature and created the domains and items to develop a new tool. Six enterprises and 2,431 participants were recruited from northern Taiwan for validity test. Results: We found the workplace health culture scale had appropriate reliability and validity, including a good model fit for the 25-item scale. Conclusions: Workplace health culture might be an important domain to the work of WHP. More validity and reliability studies about WHCS in wider industries and the correlation between WHCS and other WHP indicators are needed.

Keywords: factor analysis; health behavior; scale; workplace health culture; workplace health promotion.