英文摘要 |
Purposes: The project's objective was to provide activities and strategies that promote overall health, improve nutrition knowledge and behavior, and help employees control and lose weight effectively. In helping nursing assistants in the unit understand the relationship among health awareness, lifestyle, and dietary behavior, the project encouraged weight control and promoted good health. Methods: A survey of the current situation found staff members with incorrect nutrition knowledge, poor dietary habits, exercise deficiencies, and insufficiency of tools to improve their health. This program was conducted from January to September 2021. Total 24 participants with BMI≥24 kg/m^2 out of 39 staff (67%). Solutions were designed considering existing staff, tools, and policies and included in-hospital weight-loss competitions, the establishment of a road-runners club, and weight-control manuals and auxiliary tools for health promotion. Posters entitled Meals for a Balanced Diet and Exercise Anytime were produced, and readily available sports equipment, simple calorie-counting folders, and educational training were offered. Following the implementation of each solution, two evaluations were conducted by taskforce members: (1) evaluation of nutrition knowledge/ dietary behavior through a questionnaire and expected to reach an average score of 90; (2) measurement of the statistical effects of weight loss, reduction of BMI and waist-circumference with an expectation of a decrease of 3% of overweight. Results: The proportion of staff with BMI≥24kg/m^2 decreased from 67% to 63.8% (3.2% decrease), presented a statistically significant difference. The average score of questionnaire was 95. Conclusions: Workplace health promotion can improve the physical fitness and overall health of employees. The problem of weight control was improved for nursing assistants through careful and varied project design. The hope is that this project's intervention measures take root in small units, are cultivated for the long-term, and, eventually, are promoted across other job grades and roles. End goals are to achieve ideal workplace-health promotions and form a positive culture, whereby the vision of universal health is actualized in medical staff and spread to the public and other communities. |