1. Does Childcare Work Promote Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Health? A Cross-Sectional Study of Danish Childcare Workers Based on Accelerometry and Heart Rate Measurements
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Leon Straker, Anders Fritz Lerche, Kathrine Greby Schmidt, Andreas Holtermann, Charlotte Lund Rasmussen, Rasmus Kildedal, Maja Vilhelmsen, and Svend Erik Mathiassen
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Cross-sectional study ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,Denmark ,childcare workers ,Goldilocks Work Principle ,physical behaviors ,high cardiometabolic intensity ,workplace ,High cardiometabolic intensity ,Article ,Danish ,Work time ,Arbetsmedicin och miljömedicin ,Heart Rate ,Environmental health ,Heart rate ,Accelerometry ,Medicine ,Humans ,Child Care ,Workplace ,Child ,Sedentary time ,business.industry ,Work (physics) ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Cardiorespiratory fitness ,Occupational Health and Environmental Health ,language.human_language ,Childcare workers ,Physical behaviors ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Cardiorespiratory Fitness ,language ,business - Abstract
Childcare workers are reported to have poor cardiorespiratory fitness and health. The Goldilocks Work Principle argues that productive work should be designed with the right composition, intensity and alternations of physical behaviors so that workers get fit and healthy. The purpose of this study was to investigate: (1) composition, (2) intensity and (3) alternations of physical behaviors during work and leisure among childcare workers. Data were collected using accelerometers and heart rate monitors over five workdays among 51 childcare workers at five Danish childcare institutions. Workers mainly spent their work time sedentary (43.0%), spent little time (0.7%) at sufficiently high cardiometabolic intensity to increase cardiorespiratory fitness and often alternated between physical behaviors (67.0% occurred in bouts of
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- 2021