Influencia de la fuerza muscular en la calidad de vida de los pacientes con obesidad que acuden al Hospital General Docente de Riobamba, 2019

Abstract

The objective of this research study was to analyze the influence of muscle strength on the quality of life of obese patients who attend the Hospital General Docente of the city of Riobamba. The design that was applied was analytical, observational, non-experimental and cross-sectional, where the sample was 53 adult women between 20 and 60 years of age. The instrument (IWQOL) was used to measure quality of life, anthropometry in obtaining data for BMI, muscle mass, abdominal circumference, fat mass, and manual grip was used to obtain muscle strength. The statistical analysis was carried out with the SPSS version 23 program for Windows. In the descriptive analysis for quantitative variables, means were used and for qualitative variables, frequency. In the inferential analysis, Pearson's correlation and t-student were used. In the results obtained, it was found that there is a directly proportional correlation between muscle strength determined by hand grip and quality of life, between muscle mass and quality of life, but there is an inversely proportional correlation between muscle strength and the diagnostic criteria for obesity. It is concluded that the muscle strength determined by hand grip is positively related to the quality of life of obese patients because a measure that increases muscle strength increases quality of life.