Physical activity and sedentary behavior in primary health care workers in social isolation

Abstract

Objective: to evaluate the lifestyle for physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior (CS) of PHC workers and the impact of sociodemographic, professional, and disease characteristics on these styles in the period before the mass vaccination of COVID-19. Method: A cross-sectional study was carried out by 32 PHC workers in Itabuna-BA who answered an online questionnaire. Descriptive analysis and Fisher's exact test were performed, with p<0.05. Results: There was a predominance of women (86%), aged 37.05 ± 9.22 years, black/brown (69.8%), with up to 40 hours of work per week (76.7%), who presented recommended indices for AF (97.7%) and CS (83.7%). However, an association was found between SB on the weekend and high cholesterol levels (p=0.03). Conclusions: The workers were physically active and had low SC levels. In addition, CS at the weekend was associated with high cholesterol, emphasizing the need to reduce this behavior.