Factors Affecting Health Promoting Behaviours of Employees in the Workplace The 10th Health Region

Abstract

Promoting employee health is important for the establishment.  This study aimed to explore the factors related to employee health promotion behaviors in establishments in Health Region 10. The sample consisted of 340 people, multi-stage random sampling. Data were collected using an employee health promotion behavior interview form. Data were analyzed using statistics, mean, standard deviation, frequency, Chi-square, Pearson’s product moment correlation, and multiple regression analysis. The results showed that 71.8 percent of employees had moderate health promotion behavior, followed by 20.9 percent at a low level. Exercise behavior had the lowest mean score. Factors that could predict employee health promotion behavior with statistical significance at the 0.01 level were information receipt, shift work or overtime work, income sufficiency, chronic disease, health perception, environment conducive to health promotion, and social support, which could jointly predict health promotion behavior by 68.4 percent (p-value < 0.01). Therefore, nurses and health caregivers in the establishment can use the results of this study to design and organize employee health promotion programs. To encourage employees to have good health-promoting behaviors which will help reduce the rate of non-communicable chronic diseases.