Online ISSN: 2515-8260

PREVALENCE OF STRESS AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH BODY WEIGHT AMONG HEALTH CARE WORKER IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTERS, MAKKAH, 2019

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Faisal Raad Mohcen Alsharif1 , Faisal Salman Rashid ALsaedi2 , Najwa Ali Hassan Huraysi3 , Alaa Hussain Alhazmy3 , Abdullah Saad Alghamdi4 , Naif Moed al Huzali5 , Sameeha Ahmad Yamani6 , Ahmed Matooq Ahmed Khan7 , Jameela Jameel Abdulrhman Murshid8 , Hamza Osama Hamza Murad9 , Abdullah Masad Marzuq Allahyani

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Background Obesity is emerging as a serious problem throughout the world, not only among adults, but also health care worker and children, teenagers and young adults. Of the factors contributing to obesity, stress seems to be particularly important as stressful condition leads to irregularity in worker in work, lack of exercise and addiction also considered independent and factors leading to stress. Workers in the health care is stressful throughout the whole work time. The amount of material to be absorbed, social isolation, pressure of examination, discrepancies between expectation and reality all can be anticipated to bring psychological stress. Prevalence of Stress and its Association with Body Weight Among health care worker, Prevalence of stress and its Association with Body Weight Among health care worker fears related to stress have affected a considerable number of health care worker, especially the nursing category, studies have shown that healthcare workers managing patients have been experiencing worse psychological issues such as stress than the public because they are more likely to get infected and transmit the infection to their relatives and friends

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