A Men’s Workplace Health Intervention: Results of the POWERPLAY Program Pilot Study.

Auteur(s) :
Johnson ST., Stolp S., Seaton C., Sharp P., Caperchione CM., Bottorff JL., Oliffe JL., Jones-Bricker M., Lamont S., Medhurst K., Errey S., Healy T.
Date :
Juin, 2016
Source(s) :
Journal of occupational and environmental medicine / American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. # p
Adresse :
Centre for Nursing and Health Studies, Athabasca University (Dr Johnson); Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention (Mr Stolp, Dr Seaton, Mr Sharp, Dr Caperchione, Dr Bottorff), School of Health and Exercise Sciences, University of British Columbia, Kelowna (Dr Caperchione); School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Dr Oliffe); Canadian Cancer Society, BC and Yukon Division, Prince George (Ms Jones-Bricker); Prevention Programs (Ms Lamont, Ms Errey), and Office of Research, British Columbia Cancer Agency (Ms Medhurst); Population Health Department, Northern Health, Prince George (Dr Healy), Canada; and Faculty of Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia (Dr Bottorff).

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OBJECTIVE
To explore physical activity and eating behaviors among men following the implementation of a gender-sensitive, workplace health promotion program.

METHODS
Using a pre-post within-subjects design, computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) was used to collect health-related information along with physical activity and fruit/vegetable intake at baseline and after 6 months.

RESULTS
At baseline, participants (N = 139) consumed 3.58 servings of fruit and vegetables/day and engaged in an average of 229.77 min/week moderate-vigorous physical activity (MVPA). At 6 months, daily fruit/vegetable intake did not increase, whereas MVPA increased by 112.3 min/week.

CONCLUSIONS
The POWERPLAY program successfully increased weekly MVPA. Engaging men in health promotion can be a challenge; here, the workplace served as a valuable environment for achieving positive change.This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0, where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially.

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