Employees’ healthy eating and physical activity: the role of colleague encouragement and behaviour - BMC Public Health

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A study published in BMCPublicHealth finds that employees are more likely to eat fruit and vegetables as well as engage in physical activity when their colleagues encourage a healthy lifestyle.

. Perceived encouragement was positively correlated to fruit consumption , vegetable consumption , and physical activity . We furthermore found no significant spill-over for any of the three outcomes . This means that behavioural changes due to higher perceived encouragement did not spill-over to other colleagues.

suggest an association between colleagues’ fruit consumption and vegetable consumption . If all colleagues raised their food consumption by one unit on average, this would lead to an increase of 0.329 in the employee’s fruit consumption and 0.238 in the employee’s vegetable consumption. Against our expectations, we found a significant negative network effect for physical activity .

Table 2 Unstandardised coefficients and standard errors from the network autocorrelation models on health behavioursWe performed several sensitivity analyses to gauge the robustness of our findings. This is especially relevant for the network effect, which is dependent on the construction of the weight matrix [].

 

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