Relación entre el estrés percibido y el peso corporal en adultos ecuatorianos, 2020

Abstract

The main objective of this research was to analyze the corporal weight and how it is affected because of the stress in grown people. The methodology for this research was observational cross section, the sample was taken from grown people between 18 to 65 years old that live in Ecuador. To collect information about this it was used a virtual survey that had 3 sections: the first one was socio-demographic data, the second one was body weight, height and the body mass index and the third is the survey perceived stress scale. The statistical analyze was made in the program PSPP, where as result of it, the 36.8% of the population has overweight, the 77.5% of the population has a medium risk of stress. Besides, the stress of someone and for something depends of the gender of the person, according to this, the relation between stress and body mass index is that 30.6% of the population carry on a medium and high risk of stress and an excessive body weight, however, this data are not relevant. As a conclusion, there is not a significant association between stress, overweight and obesity, but this relation can be modify by the age, it means: the more age you have and the more situations with stress you are, the more chance for having obesity you have. So, it is recommendable to make new researches with new variables for new results.