Impacto de una estrategia motivacional para la mejora de la composición corporal en trabajadores de la Electrificadora de Santander

Abstract

Chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) have now become the leading cause of death in the world; Physical inactivity, an unhealthy diet, alcohol abuse, tobacco use are the behavioral risk factors responsible for increasing the possibility of suffering from an NCD (1). Objective: To establish the impact of the “Healthy Challenge” campaign on the body composition of the participating population of the Electrificadora de Santander. Materials and methods: Longitudinal study in a period of 6 months in which 131 workers of the Electrificadora de Santander (ESSA), 62 women and 69 men participated; The study population was intervened with the objective of knowing the body composition in two moments at the beginning of the institutional campaign called “healthy challenge” and at the end of it, taking into account the following variables: Body mass index, Waist circumference and average of fat. Results: 78 participants of the 131 managed to lose weight and improve their body composition, the remaining 53 maintained their weight or increased it; The average of kilograms of the sample in the first assessment was 80.33 kg compared to the final one, which was 78.53, showing a highly significant value of p = 0.000. Conclusions: There is evidence of a reduction in weight, BMI, waist circumference and fat percentage during the campaign period of the participating population with statistically significant differences.