Abstract: Background: Nurses have insufficient physical activity due to occupational conditions.This study investigated occupational factors affecting their physical activity based on PRECEDE-PROCEED Model.Methods: This is a cross-sectional study conducted among 161 nurses working at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences.The data were collected by simple randomization.
Researcher-made tools included demographic, attitude, and PRECEDE-PROCEED constructs questionnaires.Self-Efficacy for Exercise (SEE) Scale, General Health Questionnaire(GHQ), and Beck Physical Activity questionnaire were standard tools used in the present investigation.Data were analyzed by Linear Regression and descriptive analysis.Results: The findings showed that attitude score of 96.
4% of the studied nurses and Ophthalmic self-efficacy scores of 50.9% of these nurses were higher than the overall mean scores.But they achieved scores lower than the overall mean scores in Enabling (44.1%), Reinforcing (44.
7%) and Management-Organizational (29.2%) factors.Less than half of the nurses could attain scores higher than the overall mean scores of physical activity (49.1%) and general health (48.
4%).There were no any significant correlations between attitude(.922), self-efficacy(.134), Enabling factors (.
224), Reinforcing factors (.950), and Management-Organizational factor (.627) with their physical activity level.But direct correlations were found among Enabling, Reinforcing, and Management-organizational factors.
Conclusion: Although nurses owned enough Predisposing factors, insufficient Enabling, Reinforcing and Management-Organizational factors led them to do insufficient physical activity.Consequently, occupational factors inflatable-anal should be provided in the workplace for nurses.