Physical activity at work contributes little to patient care workers' weekly totals

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• Personal Author:
  Arias OE ; Dennerlein, Jack T. ; Hopcia K ; Sorensen, Glorian ; Stoffel SD ; Umukoro PE
• Description:
  Objective: To determine the number of minutes of moderate and vigorous physical activity at work in comparison to weekly total minutes in a pilot study of 50 hospital patient care workers. Methods: Workers wore accelerometers during work and nonwork hours for 7 days, and completed surveys at the end of the seventh day. Results: Although the participants reported on average 206 minutes of moderate activity at work, the accelerometers recorded on average 30 minutes of moderate activity at work. For the 7 days the accelerometers measured a total of 165 minutes of moderate activity. Self-reported fatigue and functional limitations were negatively correlated albeit weakly with measured minutes of vigorous activity outside of work. Conclusions: Physical activity at work on patient care units contributes a small fraction to these workers' weekly totals, and in turn meeting guidelines. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Personnel Health Promotion Occupational Health Safety Staff Development Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace
• Keywords:
  Health-care Health-care-personnel Health-programs Health-protection Health-surveys Measurement-equipment Occupational-health Occupational-health-programs Physical-exercise Physical-fitness Total-Worker-Health Work-environment Worker-health Workplace-studies

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• ISSN:
  1076-2752
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  55
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20043462
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Med 2013 Dec; 55(Suppl 12S):S63-S68
• Contact Point Address:
  Jack T. Dennerlein, PhD, Northeastern University, 6 Robinson Hall, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115
• Email:
  j.dennerlein@northeastern.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• Performing Organization:
  Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20070901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• Supplement:
  Supplement 12S
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:055381010fdc5a4baae0839eca4be2e3dc8c4164f07a60ad51fed9cb2e0522021ad5c83f3923ada5647933b92e1c35bd7103ba41f8081ba5324bfc7ad988de20
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/195352/cdc_195352_DS1.pdf
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