The Active People, Healthy Nation initiative wants to get 27 million Americans more active in the next 6 years. Their website shares resources for individuals and community leaders on how to implement this initiative in your community. Check it out!
Dr. Jennifer Gay and Chantal LaFlamme (graduated) partnered with the UGA Department of Kinesiology to establish the reliability and validity of radio frequency identification as a passive measure of physical activity inside buildings. Their paper is published in Applied Ergonomics. Great work team!
Former PACE Lab member Dr. Marilyn Wolff has had another paper from her dissertation accepted, this time in the American Journal of Health Promotion. This study, “Associations Between Occupational and Leisure-Time Physical Activity with Employee Stress, Burnout and Well-Being Among Healthcare Industry Workers”, found that greater participation in leisure-time physical activity was associated with lower job stress and burnout. There were mixed findings suggesting occupational physical activity may be associated with worse job stress. A deeper investigation into differences by job type is warranted. Many congratulations for a banner month Dr. Wolff! Stay tuned for the online first version.
Dr. Marilyn Wolff, former PACE Lab student, has published research from her dissertation. Her study, Associations With Job Stress, Burnout, and Well-Being Between Types of Healthcare Workers, was accepted for publication in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. A key finding from this study is that healthcare workers who have direct care responsibilities have different social support profiles than healthcare workers who do not directly interact with patients. More here. Congratulations Marilyn!
This fund aims to reduce course material costs and support students’ academic success. “Jennifer Gay… has encountered the issue of her students being unable to retain book content for future reference and application. This grant program will allow [her] students, who normally rent books, to have open access master’s-level educational resources containing course readings and learning activities from the current textbook.”
Read more from Jennifer Gay and the other recipients at UGA.
My name is Marcus Dumas and I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of Health Promotion and Behavior at the University of Georgia’s College of Public Health. I am conducting a research study as part of the requirements of my degree in Public Health, and we are inviting you to take part in a study about where youth go for their sexual health information. It should only take about 15 minutes to complete. I am looking for students who are currently in high school (9th-12th grade) in any metropolitan Atlanta school district to participate. If that is you, please take a few minutes to fill out this brief survey.
Follow this link to the Survey: Survey Link or copy and paste the URL into your internet browser: https://ugeorgia.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3VltXMn9KXb9FXg
As you take the survey, you may encounter some questions about sensitive behavioral information that pertains to sexual behavior that may make you uncomfortable. Should you experience any feelings of embarrassment or discomfort, please remember that all your responses will be kept confidential and your responses will not be associated with your name in any way.
There are minimal emotional and psychological risks involved with your participation in this study. Although you may not see the direct benefits associated with participating in this study, the information we will gather will be used to improve sexual health education curriculum for students like you.
Participation in this study is confidential. Any information that you share will remain private and not shared with anyone outside of the research team. The findings of this study may be presented at conferences or published for academic/scientific audiences, however any identifying information that you might provide will NOT be revealed.
For your participation, you will be entered into a drawing for a $50 Amazon gift card (one gift card per every 50 participants). Participation in the survey is not required to enter the drawing. To enter the drawing without taking the survey, you may click through to the end of the survey or send an email to marcus.dumas@uga.edu with your first and last name and email address. Your name will be provided to the Health Promotion and Behavior Department’s business office for tracking purpose if you win. If you know someone who meets the above criteria and you think they would be interested in participating, feel free to share this email with them!
Interventions to increase physical activity in the workplace, like those conducted by the UGA Workplace Health Group, have been named as one of the eight investments that work for physical activity by the International Society for Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH). A summary of worksite interventions is provided here and the full description for all eight investments are online also.
Check out some of the latest from the Workplace Health Group:
Associations Between Office Location and Adiposity in Office Workers
Translating CDSMP to the Workplace: Results of the Live Healthy Work Healthy Program
The International Society for Physical Activity and Health have released an advocacy kit highlighting 8 key areas where we can support and increase participation in physical activity. Over the next few weeks ISPAH will release podcasts detailing how to invest in each area. Check it out!
For adults, the guidelines include:
More at https://csepguidelines.ca/
Jennifer Gay, PACE Lab Director, recently published a paper with her colleague, Dr. David Buchner (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) on correlations between office location with physical activity participation and adiposity. See the UGA Research News coverage here and video summary. The full paper is published in the October 2020 issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.