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It's Time to Start Changing the Game: A 12-Week Workplace Team Sport Intervention Study
BACKGROUND: A 12-week multi-team sport programme was provided to employees of a large services organisation and conducted in workplaces. This programme was used to investigate the short-term effect of regular sports team participation on individual employee and organisational health. METHODS: A larg...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5568182/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28836151 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40798-017-0099-7 |
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author | Brinkley, Andrew McDermott, Hilary Grenfell-Essam, Rachel Munir, Fehmidah |
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description | BACKGROUND: A 12-week multi-team sport programme was provided to employees of a large services organisation and conducted in workplaces. This programme was used to investigate the short-term effect of regular sports team participation on individual employee and organisational health. METHODS: A large services organisation participated in this study. Two regional worksites of office workers were assigned as the team sport (intervention) (n = 28 participants) or control (n = 20 participants) groups. The team sport sessions were underpinned by psychological behaviour change theory and consisted of weekly 1-h team sport sessions for 12 weeks. Measures of aerobic fitness, physical activity behaviour, group cohesion, interaction and communication, psychological wellbeing, health, anthropometrics and workplace experiences were recorded pre- and post-intervention. Data were analysed using a series of mixed ANOVAs. RESULTS: After 12 weeks significant improvements were observed in VO(2) max (+ 4.5 ± 5.8 ml/min kg, P < .002, η (2) (p) = .182), interpersonal communication within teams (+ 3%, P < .042, η (2) (p) = .087) and mean weekly physical activity duration (+ 154.74′, P < .002, η (2) (p) = .071) in the intervention group. A significant (P < .012, η (2) (p) = .130) effect on body composition was observed in the intervention group. CONCLUSIONS: Participation in team sport may be an effective method to improve the aerobic fitness and physical activity behaviour of employees, and promote interpersonal communication between colleagues. Individual health outcomes and social interactions have the capacity to influence the health of the organisation. The extent of which these findings are replicable across a scope of organisations should be examined objectively over the long term. |
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spelling | pubmed-55681822017-09-11 It's Time to Start Changing the Game: A 12-Week Workplace Team Sport Intervention Study Brinkley, Andrew McDermott, Hilary Grenfell-Essam, Rachel Munir, Fehmidah Sports Med Open Original Research Article BACKGROUND: A 12-week multi-team sport programme was provided to employees of a large services organisation and conducted in workplaces. This programme was used to investigate the short-term effect of regular sports team participation on individual employee and organisational health. METHODS: A large services organisation participated in this study. Two regional worksites of office workers were assigned as the team sport (intervention) (n = 28 participants) or control (n = 20 participants) groups. The team sport sessions were underpinned by psychological behaviour change theory and consisted of weekly 1-h team sport sessions for 12 weeks. Measures of aerobic fitness, physical activity behaviour, group cohesion, interaction and communication, psychological wellbeing, health, anthropometrics and workplace experiences were recorded pre- and post-intervention. Data were analysed using a series of mixed ANOVAs. RESULTS: After 12 weeks significant improvements were observed in VO(2) max (+ 4.5 ± 5.8 ml/min kg, P < .002, η (2) (p) = .182), interpersonal communication within teams (+ 3%, P < .042, η (2) (p) = .087) and mean weekly physical activity duration (+ 154.74′, P < .002, η (2) (p) = .071) in the intervention group. A significant (P < .012, η (2) (p) = .130) effect on body composition was observed in the intervention group. CONCLUSIONS: Participation in team sport may be an effective method to improve the aerobic fitness and physical activity behaviour of employees, and promote interpersonal communication between colleagues. Individual health outcomes and social interactions have the capacity to influence the health of the organisation. The extent of which these findings are replicable across a scope of organisations should be examined objectively over the long term. Springer International Publishing 2017-08-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5568182/ /pubmed/28836151 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40798-017-0099-7 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Article Brinkley, Andrew McDermott, Hilary Grenfell-Essam, Rachel Munir, Fehmidah It's Time to Start Changing the Game: A 12-Week Workplace Team Sport Intervention Study |
title | It's Time to Start Changing the Game: A 12-Week Workplace Team Sport Intervention Study |
title_full | It's Time to Start Changing the Game: A 12-Week Workplace Team Sport Intervention Study |
title_fullStr | It's Time to Start Changing the Game: A 12-Week Workplace Team Sport Intervention Study |
title_full_unstemmed | It's Time to Start Changing the Game: A 12-Week Workplace Team Sport Intervention Study |
title_short | It's Time to Start Changing the Game: A 12-Week Workplace Team Sport Intervention Study |
title_sort | it's time to start changing the game: a 12-week workplace team sport intervention study |
topic | Original Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5568182/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28836151 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40798-017-0099-7 |
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