Effectiveness of Workplace Health Promotion (WHP) interventions in university employees: a scoping review.

Interventions concerning prevention promotion in the workplace, involving activities targeting lifestyle habits, nutrition and/or physical activity as well as general wellbeing, are growing and becoming more common due to their benefits on health and work outcomes. The aim of this review was to investigate the effectiveness of such interventions in the university workplace context to help create directed guidelines for their correct implementation in this setting. Although it was difficult to draw peculiar conclusions due to the heterogeneity of the programs described in the studies, the overall positivity of the results and the perspective university environment, outlook that the implementation of multicomponent and multilevel interventions would improve employees' wellness and favor universities' welfare.