The Effect of Health Promotion Educational Interventions on Self-Care Behaviors of Nutrition and Physical Activity Among Universities Staff in Southeastern Iran

IF 0.6 Q4 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Health Scope Pub Date : 2021-11-29 DOI:10.5812/jhealthscope.117953

Fariba Shahraki Sanavi, Mehdi Mohammadi, M. Seraji, H. Okati-Aliabad

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Background: A workplace has an important role in staff health. Besides, it is a suitable place for performing interventions to reduce the risk of suffering from health problems associated with physical inactivity and overweight, and to reduce risks of cardiovascular and non-communicable diseases. Objectives: This study aims to investigate the effects of health promotion educational interventions on self-care behaviors of nutrition and physical activity among the selected university staff in Zahedan during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: The present quasi-experimental research was conducted in 2020-2021 in Zahedan, southeastern Iran. The control and intervention groups included a random selectionof 110 and 144 non-academic staff members of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences (ZAUMS) as well as Sistan and Baluchestan University (SBU), respectively. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, an online researcher-made questionnaire (Porsline, https://survey.porsline.ir) (CVR: 92%; CVI: 90%; reliability: 85%) was uploaded, which had been already approved. Besides, educational booklets were provided to the intervention group via WhatsApp and Soroush messengers, through which the participants were allowed to ask their questions after every session. One month after the intervention, the online questionnaires were re-uploaded on Porsline and recompleted by the participants. The results were analyzed using SPSS V21.0. Results: The results indicated that the self-care behaviors of nutrition and physical activity increased significantly in terms of awareness, attitude, and performance among the intervention group participants after conducting the educational intervention (P-value < 0.05). Accordingly, the educational intervention resulted in an increase in the level of awareness, attitude, and performance of nutrition and physical activity among the university staff of the intervention group. Besides, the performance of physical activity was significantly affected not only by the intervention (P < 0.001) but also by work experience (P < 0.001). In addition, nutrition behavior was significantly better in female staff than male staff (P = 0.048), but there was no significant correlation between gender and the intervention (P = 0.266). Conclusions: The educational program executed in the present study was shown to be effective in promoting self-care behaviors of nutrition and physical activity among the university staff. Thus, health programmers and policymakers can have a significant role in promoting staff health by executing interventional educational programs. Accordingly, the efficiency of the whole system will improve by adopting these strategies and programs.

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健康促进教育干预对伊朗东南部高校教职工营养和体育活动自理行为的影响

背景：工作场所在员工健康方面发挥着重要作用。此外，它是一个适合进行干预的地方，以降低因缺乏运动和超重而出现健康问题的风险，并降低心血管和非传染性疾病的风险。目的：本研究旨在调查新冠肺炎大流行期间，健康促进教育干预对扎黑丹选定大学教职员工营养和体育活动自我保健行为的影响。方法：本准实验研究于2020-2021年在伊朗东南部扎黑丹进行。对照组和干预组分别随机选择扎黑丹医学科学大学（ZAUMS）、锡斯坦大学和俾路支斯坦大学（SBU）的110名和144名非学术人员。在新冠肺炎大流行开始时，一项在线研究人员制作的问卷（Porsline，https://survey.porsline.ir)（CVR:92%；CVI:90%；可靠性：85%）已上传，已获得批准。此外，通过WhatsApp和Soroush信使向干预小组提供了教育小册子，参与者可以在每次会议后通过这些小册子提问。干预一个月后，在线问卷被重新上传到Porsline上，并由参与者重新填写。使用SPSS V21.0对结果进行分析。结果：干预组参与者在进行教育干预后，营养和体育活动的自理行为在意识、态度和表现方面显著增加（P值<0.05），以及干预组大学工作人员的营养和体育活动表现。此外，体育活动表现不仅受到干预的显著影响（P＜0.001），还受到工作经验的显著影响。此外，女性员工的营养行为显著好于男性员工（P＝0.048），结论：本研究实施的教育方案能有效地促进高校工作人员的营养和体育活动自理行为。因此，卫生规划人员和政策制定者可以通过执行干预教育计划，在促进员工健康方面发挥重要作用。因此，通过采用这些策略和程序，整个系统的效率将得到提高。

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