The Effects of Exercise Program on Burnout and Metabolic Syndrome Components in Banking and Insurance Workers

Abstract

To explore the effectiveness of exercise program for banking and insurance workers and clarify the association between exercise, burnout, and metabolic syndrome components. In the process of the study, a practicable worksite exercise program was developed for bank and insurance enterprises. A three-month (12-wk) exercise course was conducted, and its benefits evaluated. Levels of burnout and metabolic syndrome components were analyzed after exercise intervention. After intervention, the indicators of burnout and metabolic syndrome components were significantly improved in both low and high intensity groups, and the improvement were expressed in reduction of waist circumference, systolic blood pressure, person burnout and work-related burnout. A dose-response of burnouts and metabolic syndrome components with exercise intensity are shown (p<0.05). Metabolic syndrome components were independently associated with burnout and exercise intensity in the crude model. After adjustment for potential confounders, waist circumference and systolic blood pressure differences showed significant associations with exercise intensity (p<0.05). This study demonstrated an effective approach to worksite exercise intervention and exercise intensity played an important role to alleviate damage between burnouts and metabolic syndrome components.

Exercise to reduce work-related fatigue among employees: a randomized controlled trial

“…Together, this means that (i) exercise is effective to reduce emotional exhaustion and overall fatigue, and (ii) sufficient exposure to exercise (compliance) is needed in order to observe beneficial effects. These results are in accordance with previous intervention studies that concentrated on participants who completed the exercise intervention (15)(16)(17)(18)(19). Further small improvements in emotional exhaustion and overall fatigue were found 6 weeks after the end of the intervention, and these were maintained at 12 weeks.…”

“…Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies have reported an inverse relationship between the two (11)(12)(13)(14), and the few available intervention studies show beneficial effects of exercise on workrelated fatigue (15)(16)(17)(18)(19). However, these intervention studies suffered from one or more methodological shortcomings, such as no adequate control condition, no (described) randomization procedure, and lack of non-response and intention-to-treat (ITT) analyses.…”

Burnout Syndrome in Bank Employees: A Literature Review

“…With regard to the type of design used in the research, one was experimental (Tsai et al, 2013), while the others were surveys, one with a longitudinal cut (Houkes et al, 2003) and 12 with cross-sectional cuts. Tsai et al (2013) compared groups (two groups with different interventions and a control group) by way of pre-test and post-test measures.…”

“…Tsai et al (2013) compared groups (two groups with different interventions and a control group) by way of pre-test and post-test measures. Houkes et al (2003) collected information twice in their sample with an interval of one year between collections.…”

“…One piece of research (Prado et al, 2008) used the Mexican Scale of Occupational Wear (EM-EDO), two studies (Brauchli et al, 2011;Tsai et al, 2013) assessed the syndrome using the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (C-CBI), one (Sliter et al, 2015) used the Burnout Measure (BM) and another (Pinheiro et al, 2006) …”