The Effectiveness of Weight Control by Intervention of Physical Fitness Assessment about workers at Southern Taiwan

• Main Authors: Ting-Yu Lin, 林庭宇
• Other Authors: Chia-Yen Dai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/18444780953529886727

碩士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 公共衛生學系職業安全衛生碩士班 === 103 === Background Obesity, it is a quite urgent issue nowadays, no matter the elder or the young should take this seriously because it would make life not only inconvenient but lead to illness. Especially the workers those who play an important role in the factory or a company, might be affected by the obesity and the side effects, such as the raising of the medical expense and the decrease of the working performance. Therefore, the weight control of the employees is the last one thing to ignore to obey the health promotion for the employers. Method The study surveyed firstly over 10,000 workers in the factory and after personal wishes confirming and age-matching, 171 subjects were selected to be the intervention and on the other hand, 171 subjects were the non-intervention. Both these two groups have joined the weight-control education at the first beginning. The body mass index, the waistline and the body-fat were compared between these two groups. The intervention was asked to test the blood exam and the physical fitness including the crunch, the sit-and-reach and the strength index. According to the standard of the normative physical fitness scores from Sports Administration, Ministry of Education, which are very poor (1 score), poor (2 scores), appropriate (3 scores), well (4 scores) and very well (5 scores) to analyze the effectiveness of weight control by intervention of physical fitness. Result The result shows that the data of the body mass index (BMI), the waist circumference (WC) and the body-fat are all declined significantly by intervention of physical fitness from the intervention. (p-value<.0001*) Although the non-intervention shows the significant outcome between the pre-test and the post-test but it performs not as well as the intervention in the fastest group of the subjects. Meanwhile the crunch, the strength index, cholesterol and triglyceride are obviously improved by intervention. (p-value=0.0004* , p-value=0.0002*) The cholesterol and the triglyceride are both declined significantly by intervention.( p-value=0.0462* , p-value=0.0002*) Conclusion The employees are the most important property in the factory and their health must be taken seriously. The related education might improve some indexes but the intervention of physical fitness show much more effective performance in weight control. Overall, it offers a great help to decline the waistline and the body-fat in a short period by the intervention of physical fitness. There is significant effectiveness on cost for an institute to betting in the health promotion and powerful effort to support the health promotion work.