Developing and testing measures for process evaluation in organizational level health interventions

This ongoing project addresses the need to understand and measure process factors during the implementation of organizational health interventions. The appraisal of the intervention process is a relevant factor for changing social systems (such as teams and organizations). Interventions that fail to build up positive appraisal and outcome expectancies in their target group will fail to achieve much effect. This might be even more relevant for social systems, as interventions have to trigger a collective dynamic of mutual influence, learning and exchange, often relayed by selected intervention participants. Thus, in this research endeavor, scales were developed and validated to capture relevant process factors. Process data is linked to measures of intervention effectiveness, where possible with longitudinal research designs.

• Fridrich A, Jenny GJ, Bauer GF. Outcome expectancy as a process indicator in comprehensive worksite stress management interventions.International Journal of Stress Management, 23(1), 1-22., 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0039202
• Füllemann D, Fridrich A, Jenny GJ, Brauchli R, Inauen A, Bauer GF. The relevance of intervention participants’ process appraisal for change in well-being and lean work processes of entire teams. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, Vol. 3 Issue: 4, pp.376-394, 2016, https://doi.org/10.1108/JOEPP-02-2016-0006
• Jenny, G. J., Brauchli, R., Inauen, A., Füllemann, D., Fridrich, A., & Bauer, G. F. (2015). Process and outcome evaluation of an organizational-level stress management intervention in Switzerland. Health Promotion International, 30(3), 573–585. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/dat091 
• Fridrich, A., Jenny, G. J., & Bauer, G. F. (2015). The Context, Process, and Outcome Evaluation Model for Organisational Health Interventions. BioMed Research International. https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/414832
• Fridrich, A., Jenny, G. J., & Bauer, G. F. (2016). Outcome expectancy as a process indicator in comprehensive worksite stress management interventions. International Journal of Stress Management, 23(1), 1–22.https://doi.org/10.1037/a0039202
• Fridrich, A., Bauer, G. F., Jenny, G. J. (2020). Development of a Generic Workshop Appraisal Scale (WASC) for Organizational Health Interventions and Evaluation. Frontiers in Psychology, 11(August), 1–11.https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02115
• Füllemann, D., Fridrich, A., Jenny, G. J., Brauchli, R., Inauen, A., & Bauer, G. F. (2016). The relevance of intervention participants’ process appraisal for change in well-being and lean work processes of entire teams. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, 3(4), 376–394. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOEPP-02-2016-0006
• Lehmann, A. I., Brauchli, R., Jenny, G. J., Füllemann, D., & Bauer, G. F. (2018). Baseline psychosocial and affective context characteristics predict outcome expectancy as a process appraisal of an organizational health intervention. International Journal of Stress Management. https://doi.org/10.1037/str0000119
• Lehmann, A. I., Brauchli, R., & Bauer, G. F. (2019). Goal Pursuit in Organizational Health Interventions: The Role of Team Climate, Outcome Expectancy, and Implementation Intentions. Frontiers in Psychology, 10(FEB). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00154 
• Lehmann, A. I., Bauer, G. F., & Brauchli, R. (2022). Intervention effects for direct and indirect participants in an organisational health intervention: A mixed-methods study. Work & Stress, May, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/02678373.2022.2080774