DigA Health Questionnaire
DigA was developed by Professor Antje Ducki. Ducki, A. (2000). Diagnose gesundheitsförderlicher Arbeit. Eine Gesamtstrategie zur betrieblichen Gesundheitsanalyse. (Schriftenreihe MTO. Bd. 25. Hrsg. Eberhard Ulich) Zürich: vdf Hochschulverlag. Rights of ownership belong to our Berlin partner BGf GmbH, BGf GmbH.
DigA is a new analytical tool. It allows us to define the level of health and wellbeing within a business, to highlight risk and protection factors and therefore target interventions in the area of health promotion.
Objectives
- To obtain an up-to-date overview of the physical and psychological health of staff members.
- To highlight working conditions that need to be changed: greater-than-average risk factors, lower-than-average protection factors.
- To highlight correlations and check hypotheses.
- To involve staff members, raise their awareness and motivate them for future interventions.
- To create a data bank for streamlining interventions, introducing measures involving staff behavior, but above all for work organization.
Content
The questionnaire contains around 120 questions covering the following areas:
- hysical and psychological health in relation to:
- feelings (somatic problems, physical fatigue, irritability, etc.)
- health indicators (job satisfaction, study during free time, sense of coherence).
- Risk and protection factors concerning:
- the business’s organization and
- management, information, communication
- physical conditions in the workplace
- activities and tasks involved in job positions.
DigA was conceived and tested by scientists for use by businesses. The tool has proved itself in several establishments and in various sectors.
Our consultancy has exclusive use of this tool in Switzerland.
Methods
- Commitment by senior management to adhere to the analysis and implement the measures coming from it.
- Two-day workshop: creation of hypotheses, proofing the questionnaire, definition of analytical criteria, planning.
- Production of questionnaires.
- Information to staff and completion of questionnaires.
- Analysis of data, production of a summary report, presentation of results.
- Outlining of measures (if possible with staff involvement).
- Implementation of the measures.
- Evaluation.