•WELCOA

•More data collection needed on how people can influence each other on either healthy behaviors or non-healthy behaviors (Social Contagion Theory)

•Gather handouts and information for program

•One group of employees at Froedtert Health Corporate Site

•Six to ten employees in each group

•Gather data

•Pre-assessment, mid-assessment and post-assessment

•Measurements such as waist circumference, blood pressure, height, hip circumference, weight, BMI, Waist to Hip ratio

Ball, K., Jeffery, R., Abbott, G., McNaughton, S., & Crawford, D. (2010). Is healthy behavior contagious: associations of social norms with physical activity and healthy eating. International Journal Of Behavioral Nutrition And Physical Activity, 7(1), 86. doi: 10.1186/1479-5868-7-86 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2018). Adult Body Mass Index or BMI. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/bmi/adult_bmi/english_bmi_calculator/bmi_calculator.html 

Christakis, N., & Fowler, J. (2007). The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years. New England Journal Of Medicine, 357(4), 370-379. doi: 10.1056/nejmsa066082 

High Blood Pressure. (2018). Retrieved from https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/high-blood-pressure 

Hodas, N., & Lerman, K. (2014). The Simple Rules of Social Contagion. Scientific Reports, 4(1). doi: 10.1038/srep04343 

Hruschka, D., Brewis, A., Wutich, A., & Morin, B. (2011). Shared Norms and Their Explanation for the Social Clustering of Obesity. American Journal Of Public Health, 101(S1), S295-S300. doi: 10.2105/ajph.2010.300053 

Krause, S. (2018). Vision, Mission and Values. Retrieved from Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin website, http://www.froedtert.com/about/mission

Moore, M., Jackson, E., Silverio, G., Tschannen-Moran, B., Thompson, W., & Schroeder, C. (2009). Chapter 7: Client Assessments. Retrieved from http://www.wellcoach.com/newsletters/images/Chapter-7.pdf 

O'Donnell, M. P. (2017). Health promotion in the workplace (5th ed.). Troy, MI: American Journal of Health Promotion. 

O'Donnell, M. (2014). Changing Behaviors. Retrieved from https://www.welcoa.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/newsviews_odonnell.pdf 

Social Support Survey Instrument. (2018). Retrieved from https://www.rand.org/health/surveys_tools/mos/social-support/survey-instrument.html 

Wang, S. (2006). Contagious Behavior. Retrieved from https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/contagious-behavior 

Why Workplace. (2018). Retrieved from https://www.facebook.com/workplace/about?source=topbar 

World Health Organization. (2011). Waist circumference and waist-hip ratio. Geneva 27, Switzerland. 

´Studies show that woman who are heavier had more social connections with others who are also heavier or obese showing a clustering of obesity among social connections.  Research has also shown that individuals with similar BMI’s will resonate and interact with other people with similar BMI’s (Hruschka, Brewis, Wutich & Morin, 2011)

´Ball, Jeffery, Abbott, McNaughton and Crawford (2010) state that the “importance of social environmental influences on health-promoting behaviors such as physical activity and healthy eating has been increasingly recognized” (2010).  The authors state that social norms and support does have an effect on a person’s physical activity and healthy eating behaviors.