Impact of health promotion actions included in a occupational health medical control program on a food company / Impacto de ações de promoção da saúde incluídas no Programa de Controle Médico de Saúde Ocupacional de empresa do ramo alimentício

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

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INTRODUCTION: Health promotion in the workplace is a subject of growing interest, especially over the last two decades. OBJECTIVE: This study was developed to measure the impact of health promotion actions on indicators related to tobacco use, physical activity, healthy eating, weight control, quality of life and stages of behaviour change among workers of a food company, during a 12 months period. INTERVENTION: Health promotion actions included the training of occupational physicians in health promotion counselling strategies, supervision and the giving of informative material. Two hundred and one workers were split into two groups (A and B). Group A had periodic evaluations provided by trained occupational physicians and received informative material about health promotion. Group B had their periodic evaluations provided by occupational physicians without the training. All the workers answered a questionnaire at the beginning ad the end of the study. RESULTS: There were no changes in the indicators related to the practice of physical activity, healthy eating or Body Mass Index. Data related to tobacco use could not be statistically analysed due to the small size of the samples. There was a progression in the stages of behaviour change in Group A (p=0,008) and Group B (p=0,001) in the increase of the practice of physical activity. The same was observed in Group A(p=0,001) in the improvement of the weight control focused diet. The company underwent a large structural reorganization during the study period. CONCLUSIONS: Simple health promotion interventions included in the Occupational Health Medical Control Program can modify the stages of change, but were not identified improvements in the researched indicators. Organizational changes could have influenced the results of this study.

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Índice de massa corporal motivação saúde do trabalhador counseling occupational health smoking atividade motora motor activity aconselhamento health promotion motivation tabagismo body mass index promoção da saúde

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