Determinants of Stretching Exercise Behavior among Office Employees using Health Promotion Model with Added Constructs

OBJECTIVE: To determinant the influencing factors on Stretching Exercise (SE) among office employees working in Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBUMS) in Iran through Health Promotion Model (HPM) with added constructs. METHODOLOGY: Data were collected by a researcher-made and standard questionnaires based on HPM and added constructs of self-regulation, counter-conditioning, and stimulus control questionnaire regarding stretching exercise behavior among office employees working in comprehensive service centers affiliated to SBUMS. A multistage cluster sampling from May to Sep 2017 was done. To determinants the factors which effect on doing stretching exercise behavior; regression analysis was done through using SPSS 19 software. RESULTS: Totally 420 office employees with mean age of 37.1±8.03 years participated in this study. Perceived barriers to action (B =-0.106, P<0.001), could prevent the studied participants from engaging in SE. However, perceived self efficacy (B = 0.172, P < 0.001), commitment to a plan of action (B = 0.173, P=0.016), interpersonal influences (B = 0.099, P=0.003), and stimulus control (B = 0.193, P=0.007) were significant determinants for SE behavior. CONCLUSION: This study showed that the office employees who were more perceived self efficacy, commitment to a plan of action, interpersonal influences, stimulus control and less perceived barriers were more likely to perform stretching exercise.