Prevalencia y factores asociados a sobrepeso y obesidad en el personal de enfermería de los hospitales: José Carrasco Arteaga, Vicente Corral Moscoso. Cuenca, 2016

Abstract

BACKGROUND Overweight and obesity are pathologies that, not being controlled can cause even health serious problems. OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence and factors associated with overweight and obesity in the nursing staff of the Hospital José Carrasco Arteaga and Vicente Corral Moscoso. Cuenca-Ecuador, 2016 METHODOLOGY It is a cross-sectional study, we worked with a sample of 225 nurses and nursing assistants, who worked from September-November 2016, in hospitals José Carrasco Arteaga and Vicente Corral Moscoso, and who met the criteria for inclusion, exclusion, and they admitted to participate in the research. A survey was administered and as an instrument we used questionnaires such as: habits of Castro and collaborators, IPAQ and questions elaborated by the author: feeding hours, days, years of working in rotating schedule. The weight/height was monitored to determine BMI. After data collection, it was used Excel and SPSS computing programs in order to do the basic descriptive statistics. The association between overweight-obesity and associated factors was obtained OR, IC 95% considering significant values of p ˂ 0.05. RESULTS. 59% nurses; 41 % auxiliary nurses; 55.6% presented overweight; and, 22.7% obesity. It was found significant association among inadequate meals schedules p = 0, 002; labor years rotating shifts p = 0,044 and deficient physical activity p = 0, 002, with overweight and obesity. CONCLUSION Overweight and obesity is prevalent on nursing staff and It is growing. It is much more evident than in Ecuadorian population