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      Responsive evaluation: an innovative evaluation methodology for workplace health promotion interventions

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          Background: Workplace health promotion (WHP) interventions have limited effects on the health of employees with low socioeconomic position (SEP). This paper argues that this limited effectiveness can be partly explained by the methodology applied to evaluate the intervention, often a randomised controlled trial (RCT). Frequently, the desired outcomes of traditional evaluations may not match employees’—and in particular employees with low SEP—needs and lifeworld. Furthermore, traditional evaluation methodologies do not function well in work settings characterised by change resulting from internal and external developments. Objective: In this communication, responsive evaluation is proposed as an alternative approach to evaluating WHP interventions. Responsive evaluation’s potential added value for WHP interventions for employees with low SEP in particular is described, as well as how the methodology differs from RCTs. The paper also elaborates on the different scientific philosophies underpinning the two methodologies as this allows researchers to judge the suitability and quality of responsive evaluation in light of the corresponding criteria for good science.

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                Journal
                BMJ Open
                BMJ Open
                bmjopen
                bmjopen
                BMJ Open
                BMJ Publishing Group (BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9JR )
                2044-6055
                2022
                22 December 2022
                : 12
                : 12
                : e062320
                Affiliations
                [1 ]departmentDepartment of Social Sciences, Chair Group Consumption and Healthy Lifestyles , Wageningen University & Research , Wageningen, The Netherlands
                [2 ]departmentDepartment of Interdisciplinary Social Science: Public Health , Utrecht University , Utrecht, The Netherlands
                [3 ]departmentDepartment of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam Public Health research institute , Amsterdam UMC, VU University , Amsterdam, The Netherlands
                [4 ]departmentDepartment of Public Health , Leiden University Medical Center , Leiden, The Netherlands
                Author notes
                [Correspondence to ] Hanneke van Heijster; hanneke.vanheijster@ 123456wur.nl
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                http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9064-7788
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                bmjopen-2022-062320
                10.1136/bmjopen-2022-062320
                9791441
                36549731
                f31c506f-f1be-40b4-b379-564bde2697e4
                © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.

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                History
                : 23 February 2022
                : 27 November 2022
                Funding
                Funded by: FundRef http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001826, ZonMw;
                Award ID: 53-1001-411
                Categories
                Public Health
                1506
                Communication
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                health policy,organisational development,public health,qualitative research
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                health policy, organisational development, public health, qualitative research

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