Assessing integrative prevention at work: A scoping review.
Andrée-Anne Drolet, Alexandra Lecours, Lily Bellehumeur-Béchamp
Twelve workplace prevention tools were found, but none assesses all five attributes of integrative prevention on one scale.
Most lack published validity or reliability data, and only a few have any such evidence.
Key findings
112 assessment tools were identified from 13 manuscripts meeting the inclusion criteria.
2Communication among stakeholders and collaboration among stakeholders were the most frequently assessed attributes (n = 10 each), followed by holistic vision of health (n = 8).
3No current tool assesses all five attributes of integrative prevention on the same scale.
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What it does not show
The quality of the 13 included manuscripts was not assessed, so the review does not judge how robust the evidence behind each tool is. Most of the 12 tools have no published validity or reliability data; only a minority report any psychometric properties. No tool assesses all five attributes of integrative prevention on a unified scale, so no single instrument gives a complete picture. Some tools were developed more than a decade ago and may not reflect the current conceptualization of integrative prevention. Only French and English documents were included, which may exclude relevant tools developed in other languages. The field is described as emerging and sparsely documented, so the 13 manuscripts likely represent a small and still-growing body of work.
Declared interests
The work was supported by the first author's master's scholarship from the Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et sécurité du travail. The authors declared no other conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the existence of 12 assessment tools as evidence that integrative prevention at work is effective. This is a catalog of tools, not a test of them, and most lack published validity or reliability data. The review describes what is available; it does not show that any of these tools improves worker outcomes.
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