Work stress, eating habits and anthropometric nutritional status in administrative and operational workers of a private clinic in Lima, 2018

Abstract

Objective: To determine the relationship between work stress, eating habits and anthropometric
nutritional status in administrative and operational workers of a private clinic in Lima. Methodology:
Study of quantitative approach, cross-section, non-experimental design, and correlational descriptive
type. A sample of 150 adult workers, divided into administrative and operational, Instruments: Was
selected by intentional non-probabilistic sampling. Surveys of ILO labor stress and eating habits were
applied, in addition to anthropometric nutritional evaluation. Results: Participants showed low levels
of work stress, with 93.3% for operational workers and 94.7% for administrative workers; they also
presented adequate eating habits in 72% and 66.7% respectively; Finally, 44% of operational workers
were overweight, while 60% of administrative workers had a normal BMI. It was shown that for the
administrative staff there is a statistically significant correlation between the variables (p <.05), but not
for the operating group (p> .05). Conclusion: work stress and eating habits of administrative workers
had an impact on their nutritional status, but not on operational workers, however, both groups had
low levels of stress and adequate eating habits; Therefore, healthy work environments could have a
positive impact on their health.