Effect of regular exercise program on self - steem of health care workers

Background and According to the WHO statistics, 60-85 percent of the world people havent motion enough. While low or no motion have bad effect on the human physical and psychological and it's impact on the health of the society, this research is accomplished to evaluate " the effect of regular exercise program on Sabzevar health care worker's self- esteem in 1381. In this clinical trail research, 57 person of Sabzevar health care worker were chosen by non randomized and simple method and randomly divided in two group, include exercise and control groups, the samples had at least 6 months record of service, didn’t have any exercise activities regularly, and had no physical defects, such as blindness, organ amputation. Data were gathered by utilizing demographic, and work questionnaire, and cooper- smith self- steem inventory. exercise group accomplished their exercise for 36 times for 45 minutes during six weeks program. Control group continued their common life without any changes in their regiemes or physical activities. After gathering, the compatible data was evaluated by utilizing x2, Man - Whitney and fisher tests. The effect of regular exercise on self- steem was measured by T-Test, and two-ways ANOVA was used for surveying the relations between effective factors on the self-steem changes.Mean self-esteem score in exercise group before and after doing the exercise was 99.2±9.0 and 104.3±7.6 respectively, and according to paired T-Test, this increase was significant (p<0.0001) means regular exercise program increase the self-steem but in control group the mean of self-steem before and after research was 99.8±9.9 and 99.9±8.6 respectively, so according to paired T-Test there was no significant difference between them (p=0.77). Regular exercise program cause significant difference in health care worker's self-steem. Although the rate of this increase is not so much, but according to the ease of utility, cheapness, Lack of specific side-effect and its physical and psychological privilege, researcher purposes to utilize this regular exercise program for increasing the self-steem of health care workers.