A case study that put to the test adding cognitive behavioral therapy to a company-sponsored wellness program suggests that videos can be a powerful inducement to change life choices and improve one's health.
A large wellness program provider partnered with SelfHelpWorks, a provider of online lifestyle and disease management interventions, to determine if adding video therapy to its wellness plan would have demonstrable effects on employee health.
The provider offered the therapy one year, did a health risk assessment of employees, then checked in a year later with the 60,000 employees who had engaged in at least one of the video. The videos addressed such conditions as tobacco use, obesity, stress, body mass, alcohol intake, and others considered to be related to lifestyle choices.
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Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
