Tountas Yannis, Manios Yannis, Dimitrakaki Christine, Tzavara Chara
Center for Health Services Research, Medical School, University of Athens, Greece.
Int J Public Health. 2007;52(6):341-7. doi: 10.1007/s00038-007-6079-9.
The study aimed to explore the association between the presence of several protective health behaviors and physical and mental wellbeing/functioning among healthy hospital employees in Greece.
A randomly selected representative sample of 395 employees working in seven hospitals, both public and private, within the wider region of Athens participated in the study. Participants were assigned to the following professional categories: administrative, auxiliary and technical personnel, medical doctors and nurses. Four basic protective health behaviors were examined: following the Mediterranean diet, exercising, no smoking and moderate alcohol drinking. Employees' health related quality of life was assessed with the self-administered SF-36 generic health status measure.
Technical and administrative hospital personnel reported more healthy behaviors than medical and auxiliary personnel. There was an increased likelihood of scoring higher in almost all SF-36 Physical health subscales in the accumulation of the above four protective heath behaviors. In terms of mental health, even the presence of two or more protective health behaviors significantly increase the score on most SF-36 Mental health subscales.
Results indicate that the protective role of basic health behaviors extends beyond physical health to mental wellbeing.
本研究旨在探讨希腊健康医院员工中几种保护性健康行为的存在与身心健康/功能之间的关联。
在雅典更广泛地区的七家公立和私立医院工作的395名员工被随机抽取作为代表性样本参与研究。参与者被分为以下职业类别：行政、辅助和技术人员、医生和护士。研究考察了四种基本的保护性健康行为：遵循地中海饮食、锻炼、不吸烟和适度饮酒。员工的健康相关生活质量通过自我管理的SF-36通用健康状况测量工具进行评估。
医院的技术和行政人员报告的健康行为比医疗和辅助人员更多。在上述四种保护性健康行为的累积方面，几乎所有SF-36身体健康子量表得分更高的可能性增加。在心理健康方面，即使存在两种或更多种保护性健康行为也会显著提高大多数SF-36心理健康子量表的得分。
结果表明，基本健康行为的保护作用不仅限于身体健康，还延伸至心理健康。
