Determinants of Stretching Exercise Behavior among Office Employees using Health Promotion Model with Added Constructs

Authors

  • Mohammad Hossein Delshad
  • Sedigheh Sadat Tavafian
  • Anoshirvan Kazemnejad

Keywords:

Health Promotion Model, Stretching Exercises, Employee

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To determinant the influencing factors on Stretching Exercise (SE) among office
employees working in Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBUMS) in Iran through Health
Promotion Model (HPM) with added constructs.
METHODOLOGY: Data were collected by a researcher-made and standard questionnaires based on HPM
and added constructs of self-regulation, counter-conditioning, and stimulus control questionnaire
regarding stretching exercise behavior among office employees working in comprehensive service
centers affiliated to SBUMS. A multistage cluster sampling from May to Sep 2017 was done. To
determinants the factors which effect on doing stretching exercise behavior; regression analysis was
done through using SPSS 19 software.
RESULTS: Totally 420 office employees with mean age of 37.1±8.03 years participated in this study.
Perceived barriers to action (B =-0.106, P<0.001), could prevent the studied participants from engaging
in SE. However, perceived self efficacy (B = 0.172, P < 0.001), commitment to a plan of action (B = 0.173,
P=0.016), interpersonal influences (B = 0.099, P=0.003), and stimulus control (B = 0.193, P=0.007) were
significant determinants for SE behavior.
CONCLUSION: This study showed that the office employees who were more perceived self efficacy,
commitment to a plan of action, interpersonal influences, stimulus control and less perceived barriers
were more likely to perform stretching exercise.

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Published

17-07-2019

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Delshad MH, Tavafian SS, Kazemnejad A. Determinants of Stretching Exercise Behavior among Office Employees using Health Promotion Model with Added Constructs. J Liaq Uni Med Health Sci [Internet]. 2019 Jul. 17 [cited 2024 Dec. 22];18(02):152-9. Available from: http://ojs.lumhs.edu.pk/index.php/jlumhs/article/view/150

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Vol. 18 No. 02 (2019): Journal of Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences

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