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Which worksite supports for healthy weight do employees use?

ABSTRACT: This paper explores factors associated with employee use of available supports for improving nutrition and activity behaviors. A cross-sectional telephone-survey assessed presence and use of available program, facility, and policy supports. Logistic regression was used to explore associations between job characteristics (e.g., supervising others) and use of available supports, adjusting for demographic characteristics. After adjustment, most supports were associated with at least one job-related factor. Participants supervising others were more likely to utilize eight supports including personal services for fitness, indoor exercise and shower facilities, and flextime for physical activity. The programs and facilities associated with the most factors were health fairs (e.g., increased likelihood with increased hours worked/week) and indoor exercise and shower facilities (e.g., increased likelihood with increased flexibility at work), respectively. Policies were associated with fewer factors. Since use of many programs and facilities differed based on job-related factors, employers might target supports based on job-related factors.

SUBMITTER: Tabak RG

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4767399 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Which worksite supports for healthy weight do employees use?

Tabak Rachel G RG Hipp J Aaron JA Marx Christine M CM Yang Lin L Brownson Ross C RC

Environment and behavior 20150928 1

This paper explores factors associated with employee use of available supports for improving nutrition and activity behaviors. A cross-sectional telephone-survey assessed presence and use of available program, facility, and policy supports. Logistic regression was used to explore associations between job characteristics (e.g., supervising others) and use of available supports, adjusting for demographic characteristics. After adjustment, most supports were associated with at least one job-related ...[more]

PMID: 26924850

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