The UBC School of Population and Public Health has partnered with the Canadian Cancer Society to deliver the Be Well at Work research project. It will evaluate the effectiveness of three different workplace wellness approaches on reducing the risk of cancer through healthy lifestyle choices (healthy eating, physical activity, normal body weight) and on creating healthy workplaces at three different universities.
TRU has been randomly assigned to the combined Alive! email-delivered lifestyle intervention program & Canadian Cancer Society’s WellnessWorks program. The WellnessWorks program offers you opportunities to learn about healthy eating and physical activity and participate in team and individual challenges to improve your health, all in a supportive work environment.
Alive! is designed to help people make small changes to increase their healthy behaviors. It has been proven to help people increase their daily physical activity and improve their eating habits. The program was created by a UC Berkeley professor and NutritionQuest, a private company in Berkeley, in collaboration with Kaiser Permanente and other university experts.
To participate in the Alive! program please click on the assessment link on the main page and complete the questionnaire to enroll. You can enroll anytime between Feb 23– April 6, 2011. There are 2 questionnaires that take about 20 minutes total. Participation in the Alive! program takes about 10 minutes a week! It is anonymous and confidential.
In the first 12 weeks of the program you will work on either a) increasing physical activity, or b) increasing fruits, vegetables and fiber. After that there are two more 12-week programs, in which you can either work on a different one of these behaviors, or keep working on the same one. So you could cover the two topics in a little less than a year and receive feedback on your progress!
Please note there are American spelled words in the program and American resources because it is a US program. Please see the resources tab for Canadian resources.
