Factors Associated With Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Behavior Among Office Workers Based on an Ecological Model

Pahn, Jihyon; Yang, Youngran

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“…Further, in our study, higher culture of health scores was associated with lower stress and depression scores, consistent with results from previous studies. Kwon and Marzec [23] and Pahn and Yang [40] both observed significant associations between workplace culture of health and occupational stress in their respective studies. With regard to mental health, Jia and colleagues [22] found that workplace culture of health was positively related to mental health and happiness.…”

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Association of Workplace Culture of Health and Employee Emotional Wellbeing

Marenus

Marzec

Chen

2022

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The study aimed to examine associations between workplace culture of health and employee work engagement, stress, and depression. Employees (n = 6235) across 16 companies voluntarily completed the Workplace Culture of Health (COH) Scale and provided data including stress, depression, and biometrics through health risk assessments and screening. We used linear regression analysis with COH scores as the independent variable to predict work engagement, stress, and depression. We included age, gender, job class, organization, and biometrics as covariates in the models. The models showed that total COH scores were a significant predictor of employee work engagement (b = 0.75, p < 0.001), stress (b = −0.08, p < 0.001), and depression (b = 0.08, p < 0.001). Job class was also a significant predictor of work engagement (b = 2.18, p < 0.001), stress (b = 0.95, p < 0.001), and depression (b = 1.03, p = 0.02). Gender was a predictor of stress (b = −0.32, p < 0.001). Overall, findings indicate a strong workplace culture of health is associated with higher work engagement and lower employee stress and depression independent of individual health status. Measuring cultural wellbeing supportiveness can help inform implementation plans for companies to improve the emotional wellbeing of their employees.

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Association of Workplace Culture of Health and Employee Emotional Wellbeing

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Marzec

Chen

2022

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“…Designing atriums and larger daylight channels (Candido et al, 2019) provides employees with more natural light. Regarding the social environment, employee behaviors are affected by interpersonal relationships, such as with family, friends, and colleagues (Pahn and Yang, 2021) on the one hand and are intervened by the management system of the company and the organization (Maphong et al, 2022) on the other. These strategies will encourage employees to reduce sedentary activity and strengthen physical activity, such as the elimination of desk ownership and the implementation of a workstation rotation system (Candido et al, 2019), the prohibition of bringing food into the workstation, the encouragement of walking out to eat (De Cocker et al, 2015), the use of online mini programs to conduct employee clock-in activities, and regular step log feedback (Zhang et al, 2015;Iyengar et al, 2019).…”

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A comparative study of gender differences in healthy office building strategies

Xie,

Wang,

Gou

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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BackgroundThe health of office workers has become a major concern under the pressure of increasingly fierce job competition. As countries have gradually promoted healthy buildings, there is an urgent need to create and construct healthy office environments. Although the WELL Building Standard proposed management and design strategies based on the principles of health and medicine, it does not consider group characteristics or gender differences.PurposeThis study aims to apply the theory of planned behavior to healthy building design and supplement the important role of gender and group characteristics in behavioral guidance based on architectural strategies and user behaviors to improve the relevant building evaluation system.MethodsThis study adopted a questionnaire survey and structural equation model. Four WELL-certified healthy office buildings in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, were selected for the survey. Based on the theory of planned behavior, structural equation models for men and women were established, compared, and analyzed. The factors affecting the health behaviors of the two groups and the actual effectiveness of various building optimization strategies were discussed, and an optimization direction for gender differences was proposed.ResultsThe findings indicated differences between male and female staff in their individual characteristics and implementation of health behaviors. Management strategies, subjective design strategies in assistance and guidance, and objective design strategies in spatial planning can promote the health behaviors of the two groups. However, the design strategies of result feedback and detail optimization only appeared to have a significant positive effect on female staff, whereas the intelligent automation design strategies only had an obvious intervention effect on men’s health behaviors.SignificanceThis study found that the theory of planned behavior in the field of social psychology could be applied to relevant research on architectural design and emphasized the influence of gender. It can not only provide the optimization direction for the evaluation standards of relevant healthy buildings but also promote the implementation of health behaviors in office groups and provide new ideas for promoting the development of healthy buildings.

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A Scoping Review of Workplace Culture of Health Measures

2023

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Objective This study aimed to review existing measures of workplace culture of health and to examine the health and wellbeing outcomes associated with workplace culture of health. Data Sources PubMed/Medline, Web of Science, and PsycINFO databases searched through February 2022. Study Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria Articles were included if they used a specific measure to assess culture of health in the workplace and were published in English. Articles were excluded if there was no quantitative measure of health culture. Data Extraction Data from each article was extracted using a structured template which included study purpose, participants and setting, study design, intervention strategies (if applicable), culture of health measure, and results. Data Synthesis We described culture of health measures used and summarized key findings from included articles. Results The search yielded 31 articles measuring workplace culture of health (three validation, two intervention, and 26 observational studies). Nineteen unique measures were used across all articles. Most studies examined culture of health from the employee perspective (n = 23), while others examined it at the organizational level (n = 7). The studies indicated a positive relationship between health and well-being outcomes and a strong workplace health culture. Conclusion There are many different approaches to measuring workplace health culture. Overall, workplace culture of health is related to positive employee and organizational health and wellbeing outcomes.

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Factors Associated With Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Behavior Among Office Workers Based on an Ecological Model

Cited by 3 publications

References 23 publications

Association of Workplace Culture of Health and Employee Emotional Wellbeing

Association of Workplace Culture of Health and Employee Emotional Wellbeing

A comparative study of gender differences in healthy office building strategies

A Scoping Review of Workplace Culture of Health Measures

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