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Physical Activity and Well-being Status among Employees of University of Medical Sciences
Background: Workplace physical activity plays an important role in employees’ health. As university employees are a population at risk for a sedentary working pattern, this study aimed to investigate the physical activity status of employees of Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS) and its subs...
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Iran University of Medical Sciences
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9587180/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36408338 http://dx.doi.org/10.47176/mjiri.36.97 |
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author | Rampisheh, Zahra Ramezani, Mozhdeh Khalili, Narjes Massahikhaleghi, Parissa Hoveidamanesh, Soodabeh Darroudi, Susan SoleimanvandiAzar, Neda Tayefi, Batool |
author_facet | Rampisheh, Zahra Ramezani, Mozhdeh Khalili, Narjes Massahikhaleghi, Parissa Hoveidamanesh, Soodabeh Darroudi, Susan SoleimanvandiAzar, Neda Tayefi, Batool |
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description | Background: Workplace physical activity plays an important role in employees’ health. As university employees are a population at risk for a sedentary working pattern, this study aimed to investigate the physical activity status of employees of Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS) and its subsequent effects on their well-being. Methods: This cross-sectional study included 472 employees from different units of IUMS in Tehran. The participants were selected by a multistage sampling method. Interviews were conducted by using an international physical activity questionnaire, a questionnaire for stages of behavioral change, the World Health Organization Well-being Questionnaire, and a demographic checklist from July to October 2019. Analysis of variance, t test, and logistic regression analysis were used. Data were analyzed using IBM SPSS (Version 21.0). Results: Total physical activity in the study population was 6216.58 ± 5886.09 MET-minutes/week. The mean score of the well-being index was 54.72 ± 22.4; there was an association between sex and location of work with physical activity in domains (p<0.05). The highest prevalence rates for change of stage of physical activity were found in the maintenance stage for men and the contemplation stage for women. There was a significant difference between men and women's well-being index—men reported being more active and energetic than women (p<0.001). Results also revealed that having vigorous physical activity compared with a moderate level could increase the well-being index. Conclusion: Physical activity behavior at the workplace was associated with well-being level. It could, therefore, be postulated that enhancing physical activity may be beneficial to improving well-being in an academic environment. |
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spelling | pubmed-95871802022-11-18 Physical Activity and Well-being Status among Employees of University of Medical Sciences Rampisheh, Zahra Ramezani, Mozhdeh Khalili, Narjes Massahikhaleghi, Parissa Hoveidamanesh, Soodabeh Darroudi, Susan SoleimanvandiAzar, Neda Tayefi, Batool Med J Islam Repub Iran Original Article Background: Workplace physical activity plays an important role in employees’ health. As university employees are a population at risk for a sedentary working pattern, this study aimed to investigate the physical activity status of employees of Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS) and its subsequent effects on their well-being. Methods: This cross-sectional study included 472 employees from different units of IUMS in Tehran. The participants were selected by a multistage sampling method. Interviews were conducted by using an international physical activity questionnaire, a questionnaire for stages of behavioral change, the World Health Organization Well-being Questionnaire, and a demographic checklist from July to October 2019. Analysis of variance, t test, and logistic regression analysis were used. Data were analyzed using IBM SPSS (Version 21.0). Results: Total physical activity in the study population was 6216.58 ± 5886.09 MET-minutes/week. The mean score of the well-being index was 54.72 ± 22.4; there was an association between sex and location of work with physical activity in domains (p<0.05). The highest prevalence rates for change of stage of physical activity were found in the maintenance stage for men and the contemplation stage for women. There was a significant difference between men and women's well-being index—men reported being more active and energetic than women (p<0.001). Results also revealed that having vigorous physical activity compared with a moderate level could increase the well-being index. Conclusion: Physical activity behavior at the workplace was associated with well-being level. It could, therefore, be postulated that enhancing physical activity may be beneficial to improving well-being in an academic environment. Iran University of Medical Sciences 2022-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9587180/ /pubmed/36408338 http://dx.doi.org/10.47176/mjiri.36.97 Text en © 2022 Iran University of Medical Sciences https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 License (CC BY-NC-SA 1.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Rampisheh, Zahra Ramezani, Mozhdeh Khalili, Narjes Massahikhaleghi, Parissa Hoveidamanesh, Soodabeh Darroudi, Susan SoleimanvandiAzar, Neda Tayefi, Batool Physical Activity and Well-being Status among Employees of University of Medical Sciences |
title | Physical Activity and Well-being Status among Employees of University of Medical Sciences |
title_full | Physical Activity and Well-being Status among Employees of University of Medical Sciences |
title_fullStr | Physical Activity and Well-being Status among Employees of University of Medical Sciences |
title_full_unstemmed | Physical Activity and Well-being Status among Employees of University of Medical Sciences |
title_short | Physical Activity and Well-being Status among Employees of University of Medical Sciences |
title_sort | physical activity and well-being status among employees of university of medical sciences |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9587180/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36408338 http://dx.doi.org/10.47176/mjiri.36.97 |
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