Investigation of obesity frequency and its factors among health workers

9SUMMARYInvestigation of obesity frequency and its factors among health workersThis work was done to investigate the obesity frequency and its factors among healthworkers (doctors and nurses) who live in Afyonkarahisar.In this study, the obesity frequency of 182 doctors and 319 nurses was surveyed inAfyonkarahisar and data were collected from the health workers at differenthospitals: Afyonkarahisar Devlet Hastanesi, Zübeyde Hanım Doğum ve ÇocukBakımevi Hastanesi, Göğüs Hastalıkları Hastanesi, Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi TıpFakültesi and 11 Sağlık Ocağı. For the determination of obesity frequency, socio-demographic history (age, sex, occupation, marriage, education, working time,economical status, company, smoking, alcohol, diet, pregnancy (for women), calorieper day) and some anthropometric measurements were taken into consideration.Kruskal Walls test, Mann-Withney U test and Chi-Square test were used for dataanalysis.According to our results, the obesity frequency of health workers was found 7.7 %that is smaller than the general obesity frequency. We have found that the mainfactors on obesity were age, occupation, marriage and pregnancy (for women). Ourdata show that the low obesity in health workers was related to their small ages,which are in agreement with other results.As a result, the obesity of health workers is positively associated with urbanization,family income, education, and other indicators of high socio-economic status.Key Words: Obesity, central obesity, body mass index, health workers, obesityfactors.PDF created with pdfFactory trial version www.pdffactory.com