Hazelnut Factory Workers in Working in the Evaluation of the Frequency of Obesity and Healthy Life Habits

Abstract

Aim: In this study, hazelnuts healthy lifestyle habits of workers in the factories and to evaluate the obesity situation is made in accordance with the principles of descriptive study. Method:This research was carried out between 01.06.2014-13.06.2014 nuts in a factory in Ordu. The scope of research targeted to participate in all but 19 of the 139 workers in this factory workers did not accept the research and the research was conducted with 120 people due to lack of work (86.33% of the population).Has been adopted in this study is completely voluntary, workers who want to participate were excluded from the scope.The demographic characteristics of the data workers in the study, the questionnaire consists of questions including healthy lifestyle habits and by the Spring and friends adapted into Turkish in 2008, Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Scale II was collected through. Scale is also based on body mass index to assess obesity in the WHO classification of obesity (BMI) is used. Data were analyzed using SPSS 20.0 software package. To evaluate the data, descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA and correlation analysis was used by Mann Whitney U tests. Results:120 individuals participated in the study 16.7% male and 83.3% female. Their age is between the ages of 19-61, it was found that the average age was of 37.3 ± 11.1. The average size of the individual 163.3 ± 5.4 and the average weight was found to be 75.6 ± 14.1. Considering the 24.2% of individuals of normal weight and body mass index, 42.5% overweight and 29.2% obese and morbidly obese has been found to be 4.2%. Responsibility of female health workers, nutrition, the scores obtained in the stress management and HPLP be higher than male workers and found the results to be statistically significant difference (p>0.01, p>0.05, p>0.05, p=0.01). When workers BMI According to a healthy lifestyle behaviors are examined, it was found as a result of all the dimensions of the scale of workers with normal weight received higher scores than others, and they have the more positive health promoting behaviors. Conclusion: In this study, it was moderately healthy lifestyle behaviors of workers, the study looked at the impact of obesity on sitting down in the majority of the workers BMI was found to be high. In addition, the body mass index scale of healthy lifestyle behaviors were found to affect all subgroups. Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Scale of the individuals in the low est score was found to be high in obesity cases. © GATA.