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Objective: Perceived health, sedentary time, and body mass index are important indices of health. Perceptions about health are fundamental in motivating people to engage in health promoting behaviors. There are limited data related to employee health perceptions, sedentary time, and body mass index (assessing health status i.e., overweight/obesity). Therefore, we examined the association between perceived health, sedentary time, and body mass index. The two research questions were: 1) Do employees report a relationship between sedentary time and perceived health? 2) Do employees report a relationship between body mass index and perceived health? Method: This cross-sectional study analyzed baseline data collected from 144 participants in the Booster Break workplace study. A secondary analysis of baseline data from the Booster Break study (intervention to break prolonged sitting behavior among office workers) was conducted. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression were performed using SPSS version 20. Result: Sedentary time was not associated with employee perceived health in both the unadjusted and adjusted models, however, age (positively) [OR = 1.08; CI: 1.02-1.14; p = 0.01] and body mass index (inversely) [OR = 0.87; CI: 0.81-0.95; p = 0.001] were significantly associated with employee perceived health in the adjusted model at a significance level p < 0.05. Conclusion: This study provides important information related to factors associated with perceived health. A better understanding of perceived health and motivation are important for employers and worksite program developers. Our findings suggest that more education is needed to inform the public about the relationships between sedentary behavior and health.

Perceived Health, Sedentary Time, Body Mass Index, and Breaks from Prolonged Sitting in the Workplace