Trial reportBMC public health2017
Psychosocial benefits of workplace physical exercise: cluster randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in BMC public health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Implementation of Physical Exercise at the Workplace (IRMA08) - Healthcare Workers
Examining the Impact of a 12-week Worksite Exercise Training Intervention on Mental, Metabolic, Physical, Spiritual, and Occupational Well-being Among Acute Care Nurses: A Randomized, Controlled Mixed Methods Pilot Study
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.
- The effects of different types of organisational workplace mental health interventions on mental health and wellbeing in healthcare workers: a systematic review.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2024Pooled it
- Group-based healthy lifestyle workplace interventions for shift workers: a systematic review.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2018Pooled it
- The Physical Activity at Work (PAW) Program in Thai Office Workers: Mixed Methods Process Evaluation Study.JMIR formative research · 2025Trial
- Feasibility and Effects of Exercise During Working Hours in Acute Hospital Staff - A Non-Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy for exercise: examining self-determined motivation, alongside readiness, confidence, and motivation to exercise.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Sense of Community in the context of disease prevention and health promotion: A scoping review of the literature.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Depression and quality of life among Macau residents in the 2022 COVID-19 pandemic wave from the perspective of network analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Associations between depressive symptoms and quality of life among residents of Wuhan, China during the later stage of the COVID-19 pandemic: A network analysis.Journal of affective disorders · 2022Article
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- Psychosocial determinants of physical activity among workers: an integrative review.Revista brasileira de medicina do trabalho : publicacao oficial da Associacao Nacional de Medicina do Trabalho-ANAMT · 2021Review
- Advancing health-enhancing physical activity at workplace: Sport4Heath 2020 scientific forum.BMC proceedings · 2020Article
- Sustained Long-Term Effectiveness of an Energy Management Training Course on Employee Vitality and Purpose in Life.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2020Article
- The Association Between Daily Physical Activity and Pain Among Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: The Moderating Role of Pain Catastrophizing.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2019Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundWhile benefits of workplace physical exercise on physical health is well known, little is known about the psychosocial effects of such initiatives. This study evaluates the effect of workplace versus home-based physical exercise on psychosocial factors among healthcare workers.
methodsA total of 200 female healthcare workers (Age: 42.0, BMI: 24.1) from 18 departments at three hospitals were cluster-randomized to 10 weeks of: 1) home-based physical exercise (HOME) performed alone during leisure time for 10 min 5 days per week or 2) workplace physical exercise (WORK) performed in groups during working hours for 10 min 5 days per week and up to 5 group-based coaching sessions on motivation for regular physical exercise. Vitality and mental health (SF-36, scale 0-100), psychosocial work environment (COPSOQ, scale 0-100), work- and leisure disability (DASH, 0-100), control- (Bournemouth, scale 0-10) and concern about pain (Pain Catastrophizing Scale, scale 0-10) were assessed at baseline and at 10-week follow-up.
resultsVitality as well as control and concern about pain improved more following WORK than HOME (all p < 0.05) in spite of increased work pace (p < 0.05). Work- and leisure disability, emotional demands, influence at work, sense of community, social support and mental health remained unchanged. Between-group differences at follow-up (WORK vs. HOME) were 7 [95% confidence interval (95% CI) 3 to 10] for vitality, -0.8 [95% CI -1.3 to -0.3] for control of pain and -0.9 [95% CI -1.4 to -0.5] for concern about pain, respectively.
conclusionsPerforming physical exercise together with colleagues during working hours was more effective than home-based exercise in improving vitality and concern and control of pain among healthcare workers. These benefits occurred in spite of increased work pace.
trial registrationNCT01921764 at ClinicalTrials.gov . Registered 10 August 2013.
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