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Change in well-being amongst participants in a four-month pedometer-based workplace health program
BACKGROUND: There is increasing uptake of workplace physical activity programs to prevent chronic disease. While they are frequently evaluated for improvement in biomedical risk factors there has been little evaluation of additional benefits for psychosocial health. We aimed to evaluate whether part...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4180736/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25224301 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-953 |
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author | Freak-Poli, Rosanne LA Wolfe, Rory Wong, Evelyn Peeters, Anna |
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description | BACKGROUND: There is increasing uptake of workplace physical activity programs to prevent chronic disease. While they are frequently evaluated for improvement in biomedical risk factors there has been little evaluation of additional benefits for psychosocial health. We aimed to evaluate whether participation in a four-month, team-based, pedometer-based workplace health program known to improve biomedical risk factors is associated with an improvement in well-being, immediately after the program and eight-months after program completion. METHODS: At baseline (2008), 762 adults (aged 40 ± 10 SD years, 42% male) employed in primarily sedentary occupations and voluntarily enrolled in a physical activity program were recruited from ten Australian worksites. Data was collected at baseline, at the completion of the four-month program and eight-months after program completion. The outcome was the WHO-Five Well-being Index (WHO-5), a self-administered five-item scale that can be dichotomised as ‘poor’ (less than 52%) or ‘positive’ (more than or equal to 52%) well-being. RESULTS: At baseline, 75% of participants had positive well-being (mean: 60 ± 19 SD WHO-5 units). On average, well-being improved immediately after the health program (+3.5 units, p < 0.001) and was sustained eight-months later (+3.4 units from baseline, p < 0.001). In the 25% with poor well-being at baseline, 49.5% moved into the positive well-being category immediately after program completion, sustained eight-months later (p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Clinically relevant immediate and sustained improvements in well-being were observed after participation in the health program. These results suggest that participation in workplace programs, such as the one evaluated here, also has the potential to improve well-being. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/1471-2458-14-953) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-41807362014-10-03 Change in well-being amongst participants in a four-month pedometer-based workplace health program Freak-Poli, Rosanne LA Wolfe, Rory Wong, Evelyn Peeters, Anna BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: There is increasing uptake of workplace physical activity programs to prevent chronic disease. While they are frequently evaluated for improvement in biomedical risk factors there has been little evaluation of additional benefits for psychosocial health. We aimed to evaluate whether participation in a four-month, team-based, pedometer-based workplace health program known to improve biomedical risk factors is associated with an improvement in well-being, immediately after the program and eight-months after program completion. METHODS: At baseline (2008), 762 adults (aged 40 ± 10 SD years, 42% male) employed in primarily sedentary occupations and voluntarily enrolled in a physical activity program were recruited from ten Australian worksites. Data was collected at baseline, at the completion of the four-month program and eight-months after program completion. The outcome was the WHO-Five Well-being Index (WHO-5), a self-administered five-item scale that can be dichotomised as ‘poor’ (less than 52%) or ‘positive’ (more than or equal to 52%) well-being. RESULTS: At baseline, 75% of participants had positive well-being (mean: 60 ± 19 SD WHO-5 units). On average, well-being improved immediately after the health program (+3.5 units, p < 0.001) and was sustained eight-months later (+3.4 units from baseline, p < 0.001). In the 25% with poor well-being at baseline, 49.5% moved into the positive well-being category immediately after program completion, sustained eight-months later (p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Clinically relevant immediate and sustained improvements in well-being were observed after participation in the health program. These results suggest that participation in workplace programs, such as the one evaluated here, also has the potential to improve well-being. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/1471-2458-14-953) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2014-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4180736/ /pubmed/25224301 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-953 Text en © Freak-Poli et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Freak-Poli, Rosanne LA Wolfe, Rory Wong, Evelyn Peeters, Anna Change in well-being amongst participants in a four-month pedometer-based workplace health program |
title | Change in well-being amongst participants in a four-month pedometer-based workplace health program |
title_full | Change in well-being amongst participants in a four-month pedometer-based workplace health program |
title_fullStr | Change in well-being amongst participants in a four-month pedometer-based workplace health program |
title_full_unstemmed | Change in well-being amongst participants in a four-month pedometer-based workplace health program |
title_short | Change in well-being amongst participants in a four-month pedometer-based workplace health program |
title_sort | change in well-being amongst participants in a four-month pedometer-based workplace health program |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4180736/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25224301 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-953 |
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