Prediabetes y factores asociados en el personal de enfermería del Hospital Homero Castanier Crespo. Azogues, 2016

Abstract

Background: prediabetes, a clinical condition of increasingly high frequency, is a predictor of diabetes and subsequent future cardiovascular and microvascular complications, the limited knowledge at the local and national level has prompted the development of the present study. Objective: to determine the prevalence of pre-diabetes and associated factors in the nursing staff at Homero Castanier Crespo Hospital in 2016. Method and Materials: Cross-sectional study, with a study population made up of the nursing staff of the hospital area; the analysis of quantitative variables was performed with a confidence interval of 95% and tests were used to test hypotheses: the Chi-square test, for the analysis of association the RP prevalence ratio, the confidence intervals and the p value were used, considering p < 0.05 as statistically significant differences. Results: 29.9% correspond to the adult age group, with a predominance of the female gender 93.5%; a prevalence of pre-diabetes of 13%, where 45.7% (IC95% 0.3 - 2.3; p=0.05) are overweight, in addition to an abdominal circumference that shows a high risk of 47.6% (IC95% 0.61 - 4.2; p=0.97). Inadequate eating behavior prevails (85.7%) (IC95% 0.2 - 4; p=0), a high level of sedentarism (60%) (IC95% 0.9 - 16.9; p=4.4) and high work stress (3.8%) (IC95% 0.4 - 3.54; p=0.12).