| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立陽明大學 === 護理學系暨研究所 === 99 === Background: In 2005, 19% of Taiwan’s white-collar workers aged 41-60 suffered from metabolic syndrome, which is more than the 15% of the general public. People on the work floor are mostly young and middle-aged adults, the majority of which find themselves healthy and easily ignore signs of metabolic disease. If a healthy lifestyle intervention program is carried out at the work floor, cases of metabolic disease can be detected and managed early.
Objective: To carry out a healthy lifestyle intervention program among high-tech workers for a period of six months, in order to study changes in health behavior and obesity index.
Methods: We used a one-group pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design and 66 subjects were recruited from an electronic company at the Hsinchu Science Park. Over a period of six months, counseling and repeated measurement was undertaken. Health examination data from 2009 and 2010 were used to perform analysis of intervention effectiveness.
Results: After six months of healthy lifestyle intervention, physical activity, intake rate of five servings of fruit and vegetables a day, and intake of fruit, vegetables and dairy and whole grain products had increased, while intake of high fat foods, pastry products and sugary drinks had decreased. With regard to the obesity index, there was a decrease in the visceral fat ratio, blood pressure, body weight, body mass index, body fat percentage and waist and hip circumference. The fitness score increased, but no significant difference was found for fat free mass, muscle mass and basic metabolic rate. Blood tests showed high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels were better after than before intervention.
Conclusion: After six months of healthy lifestyle intervention, there was improvement of physical activity and the obesity index. Changes in body weight was mainly the result of a decrease in fat mass. There was a slight but insignificant decrease in muscle mass.
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