Workplace health promotion projects. Barriers to and facilitators of implementing practice

Background. The study is based on a project order of the Fond for a Healthy Austria (FGO) with the aim of identifying hindering and promoting factors of funded practice projects and to enhance their quality. Methods. On the basis of the project documentation of the funded workplace health promotion (WHP) projects a thematic analysis has been conducted and hindering and promoting factors have been collected and grouped into central categories. Results. Most of the themes were identified as supporting as well as hindering factors. These "central influencing factors" are: "project- specific processes and structures", "orien-tation of WHP-interventions", "characteristics of target groups", "operational aspects", "corporate context factors" and "characteristics of evaluations". Conclusion. The comparison of the results with the current state of the literature shows that the practice results make an important contribution to evidence-based health promotion as they provide concrete instructions and empirical values.