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Abstract(s)
Background The eating habits are acquired mostly during childhoodin.
However, somes factors such as work place, meal times,
reduced physical activity, prolonged sitting at work, type of activity
and the possibility of free food consumption may influence eating
habits and consequently change the nutritional status of people
(Martins, 2010 e Fisberg, 2006). According to Martins (2010), the
pattern of obesity among different types of jobs or activities differs by
gender, the prevalence of this pattern is higher in people whose work
involves driving a car, because it is a sedentary activity, and BMI may
differ depending on the type of job.
Objectives To characterize the nutritional status of workers and
verify the influence of different workplaces in the nutritional status.
Methods Data collection was collected with workers at a company
from Oporto to Portugal. Workers were classified according to their
workplaces: crew chief (CRC), administrative, controller dock (CD),
preparer order (PO), clerk of goods (CG), charger commodity (CC),
responsible for department (RD), cleaner and a driver. The anthropometric
profile was measured by body mass index (BMI), waist-hip
ratio (WHR), and body fat percentage (%BF) obtained from the
bioimpedance. Were used reference values proposed by WHO to
categorize the BMI and WHR. The %BF was categorized according
Gallagher et al. (2000). Statistical analysis was performed using the
Kruskal–Wallis Test in SPSS 17.0.
Results The sample was compose by 80 workers with mean age
34 ± 9 years old. Mostly workers were male (54 %) and their
workplaces were: 45.0 % PO; 18.8 % CG; 15.0 % administrative;
6.3 % driver; 5.0 % CRC; 5.0 % CC; 2.5 % cleaner; 1.3 % CD and
1.3 % RD. Based on BMI, it was found that 42.5 % have Normal
weight, 46.3 % Overweight and 11.3 % Obesity. Regarding the
WHR, it was verified that 86 % of female and 5 % of male have
central obesity. For the %BF, it was found that women is more overfat
(31 ± 6 %) compared to men (19.2 ± 7.2 %). There was no difference
between the median of the anthropometric measurements and the
workplaces.
Conclusion Through the preliminary results we conclude that the
job does not influence the nutritional status of workers because
there is no relationship between the workplace and anthropometric
measurements.
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Keywords
Anthropometric Workplaces
Citation
Leal, Cristiana Sofia; Neto, Sara; Pereira, Filomena; Ribeiro, Margarida; Souza, Juliana (2012). Anthropometric profile of workers with different workplaces. In The IEA-EEF European Congress of Epidemiology 2012: Epidemiology for a Fair and Healthy Society. Porto. ISSN 0393-2990. p. s133-s133
Publisher
Springer - European Journal of Epidemiology