Wellness programme at the workplace promotes dietary change and improves health indicators in a longitudinal retrospective study
| Autor: | Youngdeok Kim, Nizar K. Wehbi, James Canedy, Ghada A. Soliman, Sarah B. Hortman, Robin High, Jung-Min Lee, Jungyoon Kim |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Adult
Male Health Behavior Occupational Health Services Medicine (miscellaneous) 030209 endocrinology & metabolism Health Promotion Workplace wellness Midwestern United States Food group 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine McNemar's test Environmental health Medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Longitudinal Studies Dietary change Health risk Workplace Retrospective Studies Nutrition and Dietetics business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Retrospective cohort study Feeding Behavior Middle Aged Health indicator Test (assessment) Female Diet Healthy business Research Paper Program Evaluation |
| Zdroj: | Public Health Nutr |
| ISSN: | 1368-9800 |
| Popis: | ObjectiveTo determine the effectiveness of a workplace wellness programme intervention in improving participants’ behaviour towards choosing a healthy diet and the correlation with health indicators.DesignA retrospective cohort study.SettingWellness programme in the Midwest, USA.SubjectsEmployees (n 12 636) who participated in a wellness programme for three consecutive years during years 2004 to 2013 and who completed web-based health risk questionnaires. The wellness programme included annual health screening, laboratory measures, health risk questionnaire and personalized health-care programme. Participants’ food group intakes, BMI and health indicators were compared between the first and last year of participation. McNemar’s non-parametric test was used for paired nominal data. Pearson correlations were computed for paired food and health indicator measurements. Correlations between dietary intake and BMI, cholesterol and TAG were computed using Pearson correlations and McNemar’s test.ResultsThere were negative correlations between intakes of fruits, vegetables, grains, dairy, healthy eating pattern and health outcome indicators such as BMI and TAG levels. Additionally, the percentage of employees who increased their consumption of fruits (16·88 v. 12·08 %, Pv. 11·44 %, Pv. 7·27 %, P 0·001) was significantly higher than the percentage of participants who decreased their intake of these food groups during the third-year follow-up.ConclusionsThe wellness programme improved some health indicator parameters and had a positive impact on increasing participants’ intakes of fruits, vegetables and whole grains at the third year of follow-up. |
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