| 英文摘要 |
Purpose: Emergence of the concept called health promotion signals a major change in the history of health care as it moves beyond disease treatment to incorporate preventive health care and health promotion. Responding to the WHO Health Promotion Hospital Recognition Project, a series of health promotion measures have been integrated into a hospital workplace health promotion program. This study, with both pre-test and post-test, aimed at assessing the effectiveness of the program in improving the health status, perceptions, and behaviors of hospital employees. Study results can be expected to benefit the government and hospitals in developing and implementing effective health promotion strategies and policies. Methods: The staff members of the Department of Family Medicine and the Chronic-Disease ward of a regional hospital in central Taiwan were recruited. A standard questionnaire was used for data collection. A pre-test evaluation was conducted in July 2013, and evaluation results were consulted to develop a health promotion and health quality improvement program for implementation. Subsequent post-test assessment was performed in July 2014. Results: Total numbers of study participants read 80 (male 29) pre-test and 75 (male 27) posttest; mean BMI values (± standard deviation) were 22.06 (± 3.61) pre-test and 22.31 (± 3.48) post-test. Gender, age and BMI reported no significant difference (p= 1.000, 0.877 and 0.622). Self-perceived health status, and health status compared to the previous year, work fatigue, safe behavior in workplace, workplace satisfaction all failed to show statistically significant difference (p= 0.877, 0.087, 0.146, 0.348 and 0.698). However, a significant difference (p=0.004) was observed in the increase of regular exercise. In terms of gender, female participants reported in pre-text a significant difference (p=0.002, p<0.001) in poor self-perceived health status and inadequate regular exercise. However, no significant difference (p=0.313, p=0.070) was found in post-test. Awareness of the related health promotion policies was marked with a statistically significant difference (p=0.033) between genders. For female participants, the results of pre- and post-test comparison indicated a statistically significant difference (p=0.005) in the increase of regular exercise and health status. Conclusion: Implementation of workplace health promotion program helps improve hospital employees’ readiness to engage in regular exercise, and its effects tend to be more significant on female employees |
