Marcadores antropométricos e qualidade de vida em trabalhadores de saúde de diferentes tipos de instituições hospitalares

Abstract

The study aimed to identify, in nursing staff from two hospital institutions, their anthropometric markers and sell-perceived quality of life. This was a cross-sectional study of 38 (22.14%) nursing professionals of the Hospital Maternidade Terezinha de Jesus (HMTJ) and 41 (22.04%) nursing professionals of the Hospital de Pronto Socorro Dr. Mozart Geraldo Teixeira (HPS). The data were collected through a selfapplied questionnaire followed by the collection of anthropometric data during the May-August period, 2011. The study showed a prevalence of female, married subjects. The mean age was 35.9 +- 9.6 years and the mean time of work at the institutions was 5.7 -+ 5.75 years. Taking into account the chronic, noncommunicable diseases, 72.2% reported never having smoked, 32.9% did not drink alcohol, and 60.3% did not practice any physical exercises. Less than 8% of the nursing professionals reported a personal chronic, non-communicable disease, although such a situation was reported in 39.5% of close relatives, with a predominance of hypertension (74.7%) and diabetes mellitus (42.8%). The study assessed the association between the nutritional diagnosis of overweight-obesity and cardiovascular risk, through different parameters (BMI, BAI, BF%, WC, WHR) and according to the working environment. In this context, there was a positive association for the BMI (p = 0.035) and WHR (p = 0.029). The association between age and nutritional parameters was positive for all the parameters, except for WHR (p = 0.395). When the association between the quality of life and the nutritional parameters was assessed, none of the variables had a significant difference as refers to the quality of life. The data indicate that although the working environment may interfere with the nutritional diagnosis, as assessed by some of the parameters used, there was no positive association with the quality of life.