Calidad de sueño y su relación con el control de la composición corporal en usuarios y personal del hospital general Francisco de Orellana, 2019

Abstract

This paper aims to determine the relationship between sleep quality and body composition in users and staff of Francisco de Orellana General Hospital. The methodology applied was of a non-experimental cross-sectional type, with a sample of 80 people. Each participant was given the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Survey, an anthropometric assessment to weight data collection, height, circumference (arm, waist, and hip) tricipital skin fold and a bioimpedance scale was also used to obtain data on the percentage of fat mass, skeletal muscle mass and visceral fat. 65% of the subjects in the sample were women. It was found that 85% of the participants report poor sleep quality, of which 69.1% are overweight and obese according to the Body Mass Index (BMI) categorization, and 79.4% present an increase in the percentage of fat mass, which suggests that the quality of sleep can be an indication of health related to body composition and therefore with the prevention of overweight and obesity. However, these differences were not statistically significant; and therefore it is recommended more studies to establish the relationship between the causal mechanisms that associate poor sleep quality and the risk of overweight and obesity