Abstract：Objective: To investigate the physical activity level and its associated influencing factors among civil servants in Xi’an, China. So as to explore some references for enacting health improvement strategy among civil servants. Methods: This was complete random design and was performed from July 2012 to July 2013, a total of 1000 civil servants were selected from health examination centers of two AAA hospitals which were appointed as annual health examination institution for all the civil servants by Xi’an government. Self-reported physical activity was obtained with the validated the International Physical Activity Questionnaire China version (IPAQ-C). The self-made questionnaire was designed mainly to describe socio-demographic characteristics and chronic disease family history. The association between socio-demographic characteristics and physical activity were evaluated using Mann-Whitney U test or Kruskal-Wallis H test and binary logistic regression. Results: A total of 7.4% of participants was not meeting the minimum recommendations for physical activity, 57.3% of participants had moderate level and 35.4% of participants had higher level. The number of women participating in physical activity is 0.403 times that of men (OR=0.403, 95%CI: 0.295-0.550, p< 0.05), and The number of older aged> 51 years participating in physical activity is 0.430 times that of other group (OR=0.430, 95%CI: 0.261-0.711, p< 0.05). Conclusions: Most civil servants is moderate level physical activity. Gender and age are the key associated factors to physical activity and identified as the least active sub-groups among civil servants in Xi’an, China.
赵鑫,孙丽君,江逊,桑发文,张玉海,何亚楠,尚磊. 西安市公务员体力活动相关因素研究*[J]. 实用预防医学, 2015, 22(8): 901-904.
ZHAO xin,SUN Li-jun, JIANG Xun,SANG Fa-wen, ZHANG Yu-hai,HE Ya-nan,SHANG Lei. Study on the relationship between physical activity and its associated influence among civil servants in Xi’an|China. , 2015, 22(8): 901-904.
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