Evaluation on the effect of intervention strategies regarding lifestyle-health promotion among community medical staff in Hangzhou city / 中华流行病学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the effect of workplace intervention programs related with health-promoting lifestyles among community medical staff members in the communities of Hangzhou city.Methods Three representative districts including Xiacheng,Gongshu and Westlake were chosen and all the community medical staff was involved in the study.Questionnaire survey was applied to collect the information from all the community medical staff.Three aspects including 1,environmental support and policies on healthy lifestyles 2,lectures and activities related to healthpromoting programs provided,and 3,peer effect on health promotion,were studied.Chi square test and logistic stepwise regression analysis were applied.Results Intervention strategies on smoking,diet and physical exercises were analyzed respectively.It was indicated that none of the lectures,regulations or individual counseling regarding smoking cessation was associated with the decrease of smoking behavior.Medical staff that taking part in the lectures on balanced diet showed higher frequencies of vegetable/fruit intake,with the frequencies of vegetables/fruits consumption on 4 or more days/per week appeared 1.74 times more than that in the control group.As for the physical exercise intervention was concerned,the peer effect was found to be obvious.Medical staff that taking exercise with colleagues tended to do more exercises with frequency in taking moderate or high intensity exercises 5 or more days/per week as 1.62 times than that of the control group.Data also indicated that regardless of intervention programs on diet or on physical activities,the combination effect could statistically improve the healthy behavior on diet or physical exercise.Conclusion Intervention programs on both balanced diet and physical exercises were preliminarily found to be associated with enhanced health promotion behavior for workplace health promotion strategies but need to be verified through further intervention studies of the same sort.