Quality in Primary Care Open Access

Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Brasilia, UnB-Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil

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• Research Article   
  Comparative Analysis of Nutritional Habits, Physical Activity, Body Composition, and Stress among Operational and Administrative Police Officers
  Author(s): Gabriel de Oliveira Jorge*
  
  Police activity is a dangerous, stressful occupation that poses health risks. Nutritional habits, physical activity, body composition and perceived stress, in addition to being interrelated, influence components of professional performance, such as work motivation, general self-efficacy and absenteeism. The objective was to compare nutritional habits, physical activity, body mass index and perceived stress of Brazilian state police officers working in operational and administrative services, of both sexes, and to investigate the correlation between these variables. The Mann-Whitney U test was used for the comparative analysis and, for the correlational study, the Pearson correlation coefficient. Perceived stress and physical activity were inversely correlated (r=-0.268; p<0.001). Nutritional habits correlated significantly: With physical activity (r=0.381; p<0.001), directly; an.. View More»
  

  DOI: 10.36648/1479-1064.33.1.43

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