Sarkar Sonali, Taylor Wendell C, Lai Dejian, Shegog Ross, Paxton Raheem J
School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, Houston, TX, USA.
Work. 2016;55(4):893-899. doi: 10.3233/WOR-162459.
Few studies have examined the associations among family, friend, and coworker social support for physical activity. It is important to know the sources of social support that facilitate and promote physical activity among fulltime working adults.
We analyzed the associations among family, friend, and coworker social support for physical activity and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity among participants in a worksite study.
This study was a cross-sectional analysis of baseline data from 144 participants from four worksites in a large, southwestern city in the United States. The intervention for the worksite study was Booster Breaks (a physical activity routine of 15 minutes) practiced daily to break-up prolonged sitting time. Descriptive statistics and multiple linear regressions were conducted using SPSS version 20.
Age was inversely associated (p = 0.001), and social support from friends (p = 0.04) and coworkers (p = 0.003) were positively associated with physical activity in the unadjusted model. After controlling for all the covariates (age, sex, marital status, BMI, education, and income) in the model, only coworker social support was positively (p = 0.027) associated with physical activity among participants in the workplace study.
Coworker social support is an important correlate of physical activity and should be incorporated in workplace health promotion programs.
很少有研究探讨家庭、朋友和同事的社会支持与身体活动之间的关联。了解促进全职工作成年人身体活动的社会支持来源很重要。
我们分析了工作场所研究参与者中家庭、朋友和同事的社会支持与身体活动以及中度至剧烈身体活动之间的关联。
本研究是对来自美国西南部一个大城市四个工作场所的144名参与者的基线数据进行的横断面分析。工作场所研究的干预措施是每天进行“增强活力休息”（15分钟的身体活动常规），以打破长时间坐着的状态。使用SPSS 20版进行描述性统计和多元线性回归分析。
在未调整的模型中，年龄呈负相关（p = 0.001），朋友（p = 0.04）和同事（p = 0.003）的社会支持与身体活动呈正相关。在模型中控制所有协变量（年龄、性别、婚姻状况、体重指数、教育程度和收入）后，在工作场所研究的参与者中，只有同事的社会支持与身体活动呈正相关（p = 0.027）。
同事的社会支持是身体活动的一个重要相关因素，应纳入工作场所健康促进计划。
