體重過重之醫院員工的營養健康態度、知識及飲食行為

This study is designed to investigate the nutritional/healthy attitude, knowledge, dietary behavior of overweight hospital employees. Method: This is a cross-sectional descriptive study. Adult healthy hospital volunteers and staffs whose BMI over 24 kg/m2, or WC over 85cm in male or 75cm in female were recruited for this study. We assessed all participants' nutritional/healthy attitude, knowledge, dietary behavior by using a developed self-administrated nutritional/dietary questionnaire. The higher scores achieved, the better performance was. Results: A total of 79 participants (68.4% female and aged 45.22 ± 11.84 years) completed the questionnaire. They had an averaged correct rate in 11.5 out of 15 items (76%) for nutritional/healthy knowledge. The mean scores of nutritional/healthy attitude and dietary behaviors were about 70.3% and 65.8% of total scores, respectively. There were no significant different in the mean scores of all nutritional/healthy attitude and knowledge among different job categories of hospital employees. However, medical professional staffs got the lowest scores of dietary behavior, which were significantly different from volunteers having the highest scores. Staffs with the lower education level had better dietary behavior than those with high education level, and such a better result was also found in the older group (more than 45 years old) (P ＜ 0.05). Conclusion: Our findings highlighted there was a median to high level of nutritional/healthy knowledge and attitude, but only a fair degree of dietary behavior among overweight hospital employees, especially among medical professional staffs, high education level, male and young adults. Strategies to enhance the healthy dietary behaviors should be considered for these subgroups in the hospital health promotion program.