Facilitators and barriers to achieving dietary and physical activity goals: focus group interviews with city bus drivers and counseling dietitians
Objectives: Our previously published study showed that a workplace nutrition intervention program with personalized goal setting and smartphone-based nutrition counseling improved dietary habits and physical activity in city bus drivers who were overweight/obese. This study explored the facilitators...
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| description | Objectives: Our previously published study showed that a workplace nutrition intervention program with personalized goal setting and smartphone-based nutrition counseling improved dietary habits and physical activity in city bus drivers who were overweight/obese. This study explored the facilitators and barriers that participants faced in achieving their dietary and physical activity goals six months after the intervention.
Methods: The study included bus drivers and dietitians who participated in the intervention program. Three focus group interviews were conducted with 10 bus drivers (divided by two groups based on their achievement of set goals) and five dietitians who had provided nutrition counseling.
Results: Willpower was the most important intrapersonal facilitator for drivers to achieve their goals. Other factors that promoted behavioral changes were nutrition counseling by dietitians, trackable physical activity using smartwatches, and setting of practical and achievable goals. Meanwhile, the most important barriers identified were occupational factors such as long driving hours, short breaks, and shift work. Other barriers were environmental factors such as availability of snackable food, accessibility to convenience stores, and cold weather. Family and colleagues were perceived as both facilitators and barriers. In addition, dietitians identified a lack of knowledge about healthy diet as one of the barriers.
Conclusions: Our results suggested that the workplace environment should be improved and that nutrition intervention programs at the workplace could encourage bus drivers to practice healthy eating habits. The facilitators and barriers identified in this study should be considered when planning a nutrition intervention program for bus drivers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b5bde27e974142068ce406806b8d05e22023-11-30T02:46:28ZengThe Korean Society of Community NutritionKorean Journal of Community Nutrition2951-31462023-10-0128537639110.5720/kjcn.2023.28.5.376Facilitators and barriers to achieving dietary and physical activity goals: focus group interviews with city bus drivers and counseling dietitiansYongmin Jo0https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9640-336XSuhyeun Cho1https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6461-3604Young-Hee Han2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1869-5675Taisun Hyun3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6888-1612CSO Education Team, Pulmuone LOHAS Academy, Goesan-gun, Korea.Dietary and Nutritional Safety Policy Division, Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, Cheongju, Korea.Department of Food and Nutrition, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea.Department of Food and Nutrition, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea.Objectives: Our previously published study showed that a workplace nutrition intervention program with personalized goal setting and smartphone-based nutrition counseling improved dietary habits and physical activity in city bus drivers who were overweight/obese. This study explored the facilitators and barriers that participants faced in achieving their dietary and physical activity goals six months after the intervention. Methods: The study included bus drivers and dietitians who participated in the intervention program. Three focus group interviews were conducted with 10 bus drivers (divided by two groups based on their achievement of set goals) and five dietitians who had provided nutrition counseling. Results: Willpower was the most important intrapersonal facilitator for drivers to achieve their goals. Other factors that promoted behavioral changes were nutrition counseling by dietitians, trackable physical activity using smartwatches, and setting of practical and achievable goals. Meanwhile, the most important barriers identified were occupational factors such as long driving hours, short breaks, and shift work. Other barriers were environmental factors such as availability of snackable food, accessibility to convenience stores, and cold weather. Family and colleagues were perceived as both facilitators and barriers. In addition, dietitians identified a lack of knowledge about healthy diet as one of the barriers. Conclusions: Our results suggested that the workplace environment should be improved and that nutrition intervention programs at the workplace could encourage bus drivers to practice healthy eating habits. The facilitators and barriers identified in this study should be considered when planning a nutrition intervention program for bus drivers.https://pc.kjcn.or.kr/pdf/10.5720/kjcn.2023.28.5.376bus driversobesityfacilitatorsbarriersqualitative research |
| spellingShingle | Yongmin Jo Suhyeun Cho Young-Hee Han Taisun Hyun Facilitators and barriers to achieving dietary and physical activity goals: focus group interviews with city bus drivers and counseling dietitians Korean Journal of Community Nutrition bus drivers obesity facilitators barriers qualitative research |
| title | Facilitators and barriers to achieving dietary and physical activity goals: focus group interviews with city bus drivers and counseling dietitians |
| title_full | Facilitators and barriers to achieving dietary and physical activity goals: focus group interviews with city bus drivers and counseling dietitians |
| title_fullStr | Facilitators and barriers to achieving dietary and physical activity goals: focus group interviews with city bus drivers and counseling dietitians |
| title_full_unstemmed | Facilitators and barriers to achieving dietary and physical activity goals: focus group interviews with city bus drivers and counseling dietitians |
| title_short | Facilitators and barriers to achieving dietary and physical activity goals: focus group interviews with city bus drivers and counseling dietitians |
| title_sort | facilitators and barriers to achieving dietary and physical activity goals focus group interviews with city bus drivers and counseling dietitians |
| topic | bus drivers obesity facilitators barriers qualitative research |
| url | https://pc.kjcn.or.kr/pdf/10.5720/kjcn.2023.28.5.376 |
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