Movement Patterns Of Canadian Nurses
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Abstract
Nurses comprise the largest professional group within the health care workforce. A large proportion of Canadian nurses self-report as being overweight/obese, hypertensive, dyslipidemic, diabetic and having heart disease and cancer. While regular physical activity (PA) is known to prevent many of these diseases, it remains unknown as to whether Canadian nurses are meeting current PA guidelines (≥150 minutes/week of moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity [MVPA]; 10,000 steps/day). PURPOSE: To objectively describe the PA profiles (sedentary time; low, moderate and vigorous intensity PA levels) of Canadian registered nurses from a mix of rural and urban hospitals (N=13) in the Champlain region of Ontario. METHODS: Nurses wore an Actigraph GTX3 accelerometer (Actigraph, Pensacola, FL) for ≥10 hours/day for a 9-day recording period. Height, body weight, waist circumference and vascular health (Mobil-O-Graph) were assessed in triplicate. Descriptive statistics were used to report the measures and their variations. RESULTS: Three-hundred nurses (286 females; mean ± SD = age: 44 ± 12 years; height: 164 ± 6 cm; BMI: 27.1 ± 5.4 kg/m2; waist circumference: 81.1 ± 12.0 cm; resting blood pressure: 113 ± 13/73 ± 8 mm Hg) participated in this study. The most commonly reported medical conditions included: anxiety (8.6%), depression (8.3%), chronic back pain (8.3%), asthma (7.0%), hypertension (7.0%), hypothyroidism (5.7%), arthritis (3.7%) and dyslipidemia (3.7%). Nurses spent an average of 448.6 ± 114.3 minutes/day sedentary, and 408.2 ± 81.0 minutes/day in light intensity, 122.1 ± 18.3 minutes/day in moderate intensity and 37.7 ± 5.4 minutes/day in vigorous intensity PA. The nurses accumulated 14.1 ± 14.4 minutes/week in MVPA (in bouts of ≥10 minutes), and walked 8268 ± 2392 steps/day. Few (25%) nurses met the recommended ≥150 minutes of MVPA/week and even fewer (21%) achieved the 10,000 steps/day guidelines. CONCLUSIONS: Even in the busiest of workplaces, nurses do not appear to be meeting PA guidelines. Most of their time was spent being sedentary or engaging in low intensity PA. Interventions are needed to target the low PA levels of Canadian nurses; worksites may be an opportune place to target PA behaviour. Supported by ORACLE grant.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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