Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome among nursing personnel and its association with occupational stress, anxiety and depression

• Main Authors: Renata Perfeito Ribeiro, Maria Helena Palucci Marziale, Julia Trevisan Martins, Patrícia Helena Vivan Ribeiro, Maria Lucia do Carmo Cruz Robazzi, José Carlos Dalmas
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2015-06-01
• Series: Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
• Subjects: Salud Laboral; Obesidad; Metabolismo; Agotamiento Profesional; Ansiedad; Depresión; Enfermería
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-11692015000300435&lng=en&tlng=en

OBJECTIVE: to identify the prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome among nursing personnel, and its association with occupational stress, anxiety and depression.METHOD: a descriptive correlational study undertaken with 226 nursing personnel from a teaching hospital. Data collection was undertaken through application of the Job Stress Scale, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and a sociodemographic questionnaire, with variables of Metabolic Syndrome. Univariate analyses and Chi-squared and Pearson tests were used for correlation between the variables, with a level of significance of 5%.RESULTS: 86 (38.1%) workers presented Metabolic Syndrome, of whom 183 (81.1%) were female, and 43 (19.9%) male, aged between 23 and 66 years old. In relation to anxiety and depression, 154 (68.1%) presented anxiety, with 48 (31.2%) also presenting Metabolic Syndrome; 185 (81.8%) presented depression, of whom 62 (33.5%) also had Metabolic Syndrome. It was ascertained that 61 (27.0%) workers presented stress and that of these, 14 (22.9%) presented Metabolic Syndrome.CONCLUSION: a correlation was observed between the variables of anxiety and Metabolic Syndrome and stress and Metabolic Syndrome, there being no correlation between the variables of depression and Metabolic Syndrome.