Health status of nursing staff in charge of the

• Main Authors: Grisel Barrios Rodríguez, Georgina Contreras Landgrave
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Medwave Estudios Limitada 2013-07-01
• Series: Medwave
• Subjects: health; nursing; health preventive program; obesity
• Online Access: http://www.mednet.cl/link.cgi/Medwave/Estudios/Investigacion/5738

Nurses play a key role in comprehensive health care in the primary care level. They are spokeswoman for the promotion of healthy life styles in the community. Moreover, chronic diseases are one of the main challenges of the twenty-first century, as is obesity. Considering this problem, the Ministry of Health has launched a preventive program which it receives through the population centers of primary care. In its implementation across the health staff is responsible for providing outreach, being spokesman and example of it to the community. The aim of this paper is to determine the health status of nurses in charge of the prevention program, using anthropometric and clinical tests. We performed a cross-sectional, descriptive with quantitative methodology. The study population is a sample of 46 nurses (o) s that includes all chief nurses and nurses in charge of the program for all health centers that comprise the Jurisdiction Sanitary Nezahualcóyotl. The 86.96% women and 13.04% are men. The 30.60% of the sample shows 52.17% overweight and some degree of obesity in the analysis by sex, is that 40.63% of women are overweight and 57.5% obese, while 14.29% of men are overweight 7.14% and obesity. In regard to waist circumference, the 91.30% of the sample show cardiovascular risk, the 92.50% in women (≥ 80 cm) and 83.33% (≥ 90 cm) in men. The 52.17% of the sample show alterations in blood glucose levels (≥ 100 mg / dl), 55% of women and 33.33% men. In the lipid profile, 78.26% have hypercholesterolemia and hypertriglyceridemia 73.91%. The men have the highest prevalence of hypertriglyceridemia (88.33% vs 72.50%), while women have the highest prevalence of hypercholesterolemia (80% vs. 66.67%). In conclusion, the structure of state health should pay attention to the nursing staff that implements the preventive program, because it implements staff have signs of the disease.