Eating habits, physical activity and nutritional status of teleworkers of a Call Center account, Córdoba 2020
Abstract: Introduction: From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous labor categories had to adapt to protect the health of their workers and to be able to continue with their activities. Among them are the Call Centers, who migrated their usual modality to that of telew...
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Universidad Nacional Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Secretaria de Ciencia y Tecnología
2021
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Introduction: From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous labor categories had to adapt to protect the health of their workers and to be able to continue with their activities. Among them are the Call Centers, who migrated their usual modality to that of teleworking or home office in the workers' home. This caused numerous changes in people's lifestyles, eating habits and levels of physical activity, among others, in an unfavorable epidemiological context. Objective: To describe eating habits, physical activity level and nutritional status of the telephone agents of a Call Center account in the city of Córdoba under the telework modality, in the year 2020. Material and methods: An observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study. Non-probabilistic sample, for convenience, made up of 90 telephone agents from a Call Center account under the telework modality (exclusion criteria: seniority <2 months, workers with sick leave, pregnant women and lactating women). Data collection was carried out using a semi-structured survey form to be completed in an online, self-administered format (Google Forms). It was prepared based on the survey proposed by the Manual de Entornos Saludables and the Cuestionario Internacional de Actividad Física “IPAQ”. Results: 85.6% of the sample was represented by the female gender, the mean age was 28.8 ± 5.5 years. 45.6% presented a BMI ≥ 25 Kg / m2 and six out of ten workers perceived an increase in weight since they began to telework. Practically everyone eats at least one meal during their working hours, ultra-processed products being the most chosen and more than half (54.4%) increased their food consumption. 83.5% spent 6 hours or more sitting during a business day. Conclusions: The high proportion of workers with overweight and obesity, the quality of their diet with a prominence of ultra-processed foods and the high time spent sitting, call for the generation of adapted strategies that promote healthy lifestyles in work environments, in order to protect the health and prevent the development of diseases.
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