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Journal of Insights in Nutrition and Metabolism | Volume 2
Promoting healthy eating at the workplace: The role of the interest in different groups of employees
Joao Lima
1, 2, 3, 4
, Teresa Brandao
5
and
Ada Rocha
3, 4, 6
1
Coimbra Health School, Portugal
2
ciTechCare, Portugal
3
GreenUPorto, Portugal
4
LAQV – Requimte, Portugal
5
Escola Superior de Biotecnologia da Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
6
University of Porto, Portugal
INTRODUCTION
:Healthpromotionactivitiesattheworkplace
may be more effective and targeted if the key drivers and
motivations of food consumption are previously identified.
AIM:
This work aims to identify health promotion
strategies at the workplace pointed out by employees as
more interesting of a faculty of the University of Porto.
METHODS:
Data was obtained through the application of a
self-administrated questionnaire. There were assessed 513
individuals, including academic and non-academic workers.
RESULTS:
Themajority of respondents classified as extremely
interesting the ‘free access towater’, ‘free distribution of fruit
in theworkplace’ and ‘healthychoices atmeals available in the
restaurant/bar’. Strategies such as ‘cooking classes’, ‘access to
health promotion materials such as leaflets and posters that
promote healthy eating’, ‘access to messages about healthy
eating via email and/or bulletin boards’ and training, lectures
and workshops about healthy eating’ were considered
extremely uninteresting or uninteresting more frequently.
CONCLUSIONS:
This work shows that strategies related to
food availability were considered by respondents as the
most interesting in opposite to strategies related to nutrition
literacy that were considered uninteresting. Differences
found according to the type of activity and academic
degree on interest in strategies point out to the need of
adapting specific interventions to different target groups.
Speaker Biography
Joao Lima is currently working at the Coimbra Health School, Portugal. His has published a
number of research papers in the field of Nutrition.
e:
joao.lima@estescoimbra.pt