Estrés laboral, hábitos del sueño y estado nutricional antropométrico de empleados del GAD municipal del cantón Mocha, provincia de Tungurahua, 2022-2023

Abstract

Over the years, stress and poor sleep habits have been the main factor in triggering the development of chronic non-communicable diseases such as overweight and obesity in the population. This is now considered a global public health problem. The objective of this research was to analyze the influence of work stress and sleep habits on the nutritional status of employees of the municipal office of Mocha, province of Tungurahua. This was a cross-sectional study of non-experimental design in which 73 employees participated. Work stress, sleep quality and eating habits were determined through previously validated surveys that were used in other research works; for instance, the ILO-WHO work stress questionnaire, Pittsburg sleep quality index and eating habits questionnaire respectively were used. Body composition was identified through anthropometric measurements following the ISAK measurement protocol. Finally, to determine the relationships between variables, the Chi square test was applied. Here the statistical significance was considered at a value of p<0.05. The results show that the majority of the participants were male. 89% indicated a low level of stress in the organizational territory area; Regarding sleep quality, 49.3% mentioned they suffer from some disturbance during their rest at least once a week. Regarding nutritional status, 43.8% of the subjects were overweight. It was also observed that people who had a low level of work stress, low quality of sleep, inadequate eating habits, predominantly male sex and an who range between 43 to 49 years old are more likely to be overweight/obese although some of these differences were not statistically significant. It can be concluded that, in this study, no statistically significant relationship was found between the degree of work stress and sleep quality with nutritional status.