Active for Life Online

Worksite Physical Activity Program

Program Training:

Program Director Role

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What is Active for Life?

•Active for Life Online is a 10-week program designed to promote health awareness and physical activity at the workplace.

•Team approach allows Teammates, Team Captains, and Directors provide encouragement to succeed

•Based on the Stage of Change Theory and the ACS Physical Activity Guidelines

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Adopt a physically active lifestyle

Adults: Be at least moderately active for 30 minutes or more on 5 or more days of the week

45 minutes or more of moderate-to-vigorous activity on 5 or more days of the week may further enhance reductions in the risk of breast and colon cancer

Maintain a healthful weight throughout life

Active for Life Promotes ACS Guidelines for Physical Activity:

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• Moderate activity offers health benefits (i.e. Stronger heart muscle, low blood pressure and cholesterol)

• Different participants have different needs

• Everyone has the opportunity to participate

• Something is better than nothing

What is Moderate Activity?

• Anything that makes you breathe as hard as you would during a brisk walk

• Walking one mile in 15 to 20 minutes

What is Moderate Activity?

Why Moderate Activity?

Brisk walking Mopping Dancing

Raking the lawn Softball Pushing the lawn mower

Volleyball Jogging Playing doubles tennis

Digging Swimming laps Scrubbing floors

Yoga Tai-Chi

Examples of Moderate Activity

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What Works?

Key elements of an effective physical activity program, according to the Task Force on Community Preventive Services:

Social support in community settings including worksites for supporting new healthy behavior: “buddy” systems, making a “contract” with others to reach certain levels of physical activity, organizing exercise groups for companionship and support

Setting goals for physical activity and self-monitoring of progress toward goals

Flexibility for individual adaptation: allowing participants to set their own goals and choose the type(s) of physical activity to undertake based on their own level of physical ability and other personal circumstances

SOURCE: The Guide to Community Preventive Services (www.thecommunityguide.org)

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Why Active for Life?

Key elements of an effective physical activity program:

Social Support

Setting Goals & Self-Monitoring

Individual Adaptation

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Why Active for Life?

It’s Effective

Effectiveness of AFL to increase activity:• 30-40% increase in time spent being active• 20-25% increase in proportion of participants meeting

recommended physical activity guidelines

At baseline, 1/4 of participants were not active at all.

The biggest changes were employees who went from inactive or seldom active (24% at baseline) to meeting recommended physical activity guidelines (93% at 10 week follow-up).

SOURCE: Active for Life: An Evaluation of a Worksite-based Physical Activity Program. Beverly B. Green MD, MPH; Allen Cheadle, PhD; Adam S. Pellegrini; Jeffrey R. Harris, MD, MPH, MBA; 8/11/05.

Group Health Cooperative is a nonprofit health care system based in Seattle, Washington. Group Health employs about 8,300 staff including doctors, nurses, administrators, and facilities personnel. Among the 9 participating worksites in the AFL study, seven were clinics and two were hospitals.

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ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

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Brief overview of the AFL Roles

Executive Director (ED) – highest role in the AFL program; oversees the campaign and guides the Program Directors.

Program Director (PD) – manages the AFL program and assumes the role of the ED if the role is not utilized, recruits Team Captains, coordinates kick-off, midpoint and final campaign rallying activities/events/messages.

Team Captain (TC) – responsible for providing program information and support directly to the Participants

Participant – responsible for logging points, participating in the program activities and encouraging other team members

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User Guides – Detailed Role Overviews

•Manuals developed for each AFL user role

•Provides step-by-step instructions for each AFL user role to register for AFL

•AFL User Guides provided by the Executive Director following this training/orientation

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GETTING STARTED

AFL REGISTRATION PROCESSES

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Invitation link is a graphic link

A text hyperlink is also included in case users have disabled or are unable to view graphics in their email program

Accept Invitation from Executive Director

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AFL crosschecks email addresses with user database, then determines which invitation to send.

Registration: First Time Users

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AFL crosschecks email addresses with user database, then determines which invitation to send.

Registration: Returning Users

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Registration – Campaign Details

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Program Director Next Steps

Website OverviewTeam Captains/Participants InvitationsProgram News

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Website Overview Participant Landing Page - the Points Log Screen

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Website Overview Program Tools – When you need do something or find out how to do it.

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Website OverviewReports – Keep an Eye on the Campaign

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Inviting Team Captains & Participants

Users go to Campaign Tools to send invitations

Type invitees’ email addresses or copy and paste list (separate each email address with a comma)

Click button to send invitations

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Program News – Keep Everyone Informed and Involved

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How to Access Active for LifeOnce a Participant is Registered

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Fightcancer.org

After initial registration, participants will first need to login to fightcancer.org prior to AFL login; At this page, participants enter company specific password.

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Active for Life Login

Encourage participants to make note of the username and password they use at registration as it will ease process of troubleshooting down the road.

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TROUBLESHOOTING

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Computer Configuration Issue

‘User’s Email Application Corrupts Registration URL

The URL contains information about the role of the participant, team captain or member, and which team they belong to. Some email platforms block the information from being passed to the AFL System. Without this information, the system doesn't know where to put the registrant and cannot complete the registration process.

In most cases, this issue causes the AFL system to default to the FightCancer.org login screen.

Solution - Instead of clicking on the URL while inside the email, copy and paste it into an internet explorer browser before activating it

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Computer Configuration Issue

‘Registration URL Arrives Fragmented in Invitation

Some email systems chop the URL in half when the email comes in, and unfortunately only the first half is underlined and looks like a URL. It is very easy to miss the rest of it because it is on the next line (sometimes there is also a blank line between the two pieces) and is not underlined. A good way to spot that the URL has been broken in half is that the first half ends in "asp" or "asp?” This is NOT what the URL should end with - it should end with a bunch of numbers and letters.

This problem usually causes the registrant to get a "system not available" type of error message.

Solution – Delete the blanks between the two pieces to merge them back together before activating.

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Computer Configuration Issue

Pop-Up Blocker Interferes with Online Registration Process

The registration information is captured through a series of WebPages, and sometimes the blockers will not allow the next page to come up.

This problem also usually causes the registrant to get a "system not available" type of error message.

Solution – To check and make sure the blocker is off, click on "Tools" on the IE browser toolbar and hover over "Pop-up Blocker". An option will appear to the right that indicates whether you can turn the blocker on or off, depending on whether it was on or not originally. We want it to say "Turn On Pop-up Blocker".

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Reporting Problems - Information Needed

Without enough info, we’re troubleshooting in the dark.

Helpful Information to include when reporting a problem:

• User’s name as entered in AFL• User’s password as entered in AFL• User’s email address• Company name• Team name (if applicable)• Description of issue/problem• Steps taken that resulted in problem• The exact error message or a screenshot

Upfront info makes troubleshooting easier and faster!

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Troubleshooting Contacts:

Executive Director – Doug Spohn

ACS Tech Support – Kirk Hinds

“Contact Us” Link on Web Pages

360-753-4137 / dougs@awcnet.org

505-262-6020 / kirk.hinds@cancer.org

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‘Contact Us’ button

Available on every web page of FC.org and AFL

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THANK YOU!!