Barriers to Healthy Nutrition and Exercise Behaviors Among Healthcare Workers

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Author(s): Joseph J. Mazzola (Meredith College, USA)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 23
Source title: Mental Health and Wellness in Healthcare Workers: Identifying Risks, Prevention, and Treatment
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Clint A. Bowers (University of Central Florida, USA), Deborah C. Beidel (University of Central Florida, USA), Madeline R. Marks (University of Maryland, USA), Kristin Horan (University of Central Florida, USA)and Janis Cannon-Bowers (Cannon-Bowers Consulting, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8813-0.ch005

Keywords: Medical Information Science Reference / Mental Health & Behavioral Studies / Psychiatry and Mental Health / Social Sciences & Humanities

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Healthcare workers often struggle with being able to complete healthy eating and exercise behaviors, and this can lead to issues like obesity and chronic illness. The focus of this chapter is on the healthy nutrition and exercise behaviors of healthcare workers, specifically workplace barriers encountered that hinder those behaviors. The major barrier categories discussed in this chapter are time and shiftwork issues, job demands/work stress, absence of healthy options, lack of health knowledge, the work environment, social barriers, and personal factors. Potential facilitators to health behavior and initiatives organizations can implement to improve the health of healthcare employees are also included.

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