Similarity Index : Sedentary Life Style and Risk of Metabolic Syndrome of Public Health Center Nurses during the Covid-19 Pandemic

INTERNATIONAL WEBINAR “COVID-19 PANDEMIC: IMPACTS, STRATEGIES, AND CHALLENGES ON THE URBAN HEALTH”

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Background: The Covid-19 pandemic had an impact on various aspects including increased anxiety and less physical activity due to the overload task for health workers including inpatient Public Health Centre (PHC). Both of these increase the risk of metabolic syndrome. Objective: To describe the sedentary life style and the risk of metabolic syndrome in nurses who work in inpatient PHCin Sleman Regency, Yogyakarta. Methods: This research was descriptive quantitative, conducted in August 2020. The data were collection using questionarie form such as subject characteristics, sedentary life style and sindroma metabolic using test of random blood glucose, blood pressure, measuring body mass index (BMI) and abdominal sircumference. The sedentary life style were catagorized by sedentary when psysical activity less than 5 times a week and less than 150 minutes a week while Pre DM were catagorized by normal: 80-144mg/dL, pre DM: 145-199mg/dL and DM: >200 mg/dL. Blood tension were catagorized by normotension: <130/<80 mmHg, prehypertension: 130- 139/80-89 mmHg, hypertension:≥140/80mmHg. Obese central were catagorized by obes (female ≥80 cm, male ≥90 cm). and BMI categorized by wasting:<18.5, normal 18.5-24.9, overweight 25-30, obese >30. Sindrom metabolic were if three or more category was high. The subject were all nurses at Inpatient Public Health Center in Sleman Yogyakarta, willingness to involve this study, so the subject were as many as 99 persons. Data was presented by descriptive. The research was approved by MHREC Polkesyo, number e-KEPK/POLKESYO/0516/VI/2020 Results: The results showed that majority of subject were female (76.8%) and aged <30 years old (47.6%). Most of them have not physical activity regularly or sedentary life style habit (71.7%). Based on body mass index (BMI) measurement, as many as 36.4% was obesed, while 47.5% suffer form central obesity. Random blood test showed that 25.3% were the pre-DM and DM and more than a half were pre-hypertension and hypertension (52.5%). The three indicators showed that 70.7% participants were suffer from syndrome metabolic. Conclusion: Most of the respondents have sedentary life style and suffer from syndrome metabolic. Keywords: Sedentary life style, metabolic syndrome, nurse