BeBePrä: Strengthening the focus on needs and requirements in prevention
Term 06/2022 - 09/2026
Project management/project coordination
Dr. Iris Brandes
Dr. Andrea Dehn-Hindenberg
Project sponsor
Rehapro funding program "Innovative ways to participate in working life".
Model project of the German Pension Insurance Braunschweig-Hannover (DRV BS-H) (implementation at the location: Reha-Zentrum Bad Eilsen)
Background and objectives
The BeBePrä project is a pilot project carried out by DRV Braunschweig-Hannover as part of the nationwide Rehapro funding program "Innovative Ways to Participate in Working Life", which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS).
The aim is to test new concepts and to maintain or restore the employability of people with health impairments better than before.
This implies a focus on job-independent work-related stress as well as on requirements and framework conditions specific to the occupational group.
The BeBePrä project aims to test and evaluate new approaches to prevention by providing employees with initial health impairments with behavioral prevention and needs-oriented offers in the fields of stress management and resource strengthening, exercise promotion, healthy nutrition and addiction prevention.
The offer also aims to increase motivation to implement health-promoting behavior and health literacy. As part of the project, a needs-based, cross-occupational group prevention measure and an occupational group-specific offer are to be developed and evaluated. The existing prevention service RV Fit (https://www.rv-fit.de/) will be expanded to include a prevention coach and a prevention budget for the use of prevention services at the place of residence.
The focus is on improving individually identified vulnerable health parameters, health behavior and health-related quality of life.
The overarching goal is to further develop the existing prevention offerings with the aim of focusing more on the individual and work-related needs and requirements of working people, enabling a wider range of offerings (in addition to exercise offerings) in the training and self-activity phase and ensuring long-term personal support to increase motivation and participation.
Research design/methods
The Institute of Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Public Health Research is conducting the scientific evaluation of the model project. The central project tasks are the scientific monitoring, the identification of prospects for success, the presentation of prospects for continuation and the description of quality criteria.
The research design consists of a mixed-methods design (quantitative, online-based questionnaire survey, qualitative expert interviews and focus groups), an effectiveness analysis of the overall program and a satisfaction analysis of the participants. In addition, the participatory creation of requirement profiles for the occupational group-specific design of the start phase and integration of digital (accompanying) offers as well as the conception of an occupation-specific prevention offer for nursing professions will take place.
Outlook
The project aims to develop both needs-based, cross-occupational group prevention and an occupational group-specific offering. Focusing the offers on the special needs of occupational groups under stress, such as Nursing, can increase effectiveness and contribute to health and occupational performance. The project is therefore not only about implementing legal requirements more innovatively, but also about assuming social responsibility.
Further information
https://www.modellvorhaben-rehapro.de/SharedDocs/Projektdaten/Projektdarstellung_BeBePrae_2FA.html
A235_Broschuere_rehapro_2_Foerderaufruf_barrierefrei.pdf
Publications
Dehn-Hindenberg A, Brandes I (2025). Health promotion in nursing professions. Nursing Education 2/2025, pp. 19-23.
Dehn-Hindenberg A, Brandes I (2025). Prevention before rehabilitation - counteracting stress at an early stage. World of Healthcare 1/2025, p. 36-40.