Department of Public Health Sciences, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA.
J Occup Environ Med. 2010 Jan;52 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):S4-7. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e3181c78a3a.
Worksites provide opportunities to reach more than 60% of adults in the United States, including populations diverse in race, ethnicity, gender, age, occupation, income, and health status. Employers that provide worksite weight management interventions have the potential to reduce sick leave, health care costs, and workers compensation costs, and increase employee morale and worker efficiency. Hotels specifically, represent a broad cross-section of job categories, and most hotels are staffed and operated similarly around the world. However, from our literature review, there have been no investigations of the association between the hotel environment and employees' obesity.
For this study, we tested the relationship between environmental factors in hotels and employees' body mass index (BMI).
Overall no substantial correlations were found on any environmental variable. However, hotel size affected some relationships. Higher BMI was related to greater number of stairs, stair facilitation, and the healthy eating facilitation variables (excluding nutrition signs or posters) in medium sized hotels. Lower BMI was found with greater stair facilitation in small hotels; and with greater number of physical activity (PA) signs, lunch room nutrition signs, and hotel nutrition signs in large hotels. Unionized status affected only two environmental variables. For unionized hotels, BMI was negatively correlated with PA signs and positively correlated with the healthy eating facilitation.
No logical pattern of association was found between workplace environmental factors and hotel employee BMI levels. Further research should investigate the interaction of the size and structure of the workplace with the impact of environmental efforts to reduce overweight and obesity.
工作场所为接触美国 60%以上成年人提供了机会，包括在种族、民族、性别、年龄、职业、收入和健康状况方面多样化的人群。提供工作场所体重管理干预措施的雇主有可能减少病假、医疗保健费用和工人赔偿费用，并提高员工士气和工人效率。酒店特别代表了广泛的职业类别，而且大多数酒店在世界各地的人员配备和运营方式都相似。然而，根据我们的文献回顾，还没有调查酒店环境与员工肥胖之间的关系。
在这项研究中，我们测试了酒店环境因素与员工体重指数（BMI）之间的关系。
总体而言，任何环境变量之间都没有发现实质性的相关性。然而，酒店规模影响了一些关系。在中型酒店中，较高的 BMI 与更多的楼梯、楼梯便利设施以及健康饮食便利设施（不包括营养标志或海报）有关。在小型酒店中，较低的 BMI 与更多的楼梯便利设施有关；在大型酒店中，与更多的体力活动（PA）标志、午餐室营养标志和酒店营养标志有关。工会化状态仅影响两个环境变量。对于工会化的酒店，BMI 与 PA 标志呈负相关，与健康饮食便利设施呈正相关。
在工作场所环境因素和酒店员工 BMI 水平之间没有发现逻辑关联模式。进一步的研究应该调查工作场所的规模和结构与减少超重和肥胖的环境努力的影响之间的相互作用。
