Prevalência de doenças crônicas não transmissíveis e fatores associados entre servidores da UFMT, Campus – Cuiabá-MT

Abstract

The non-contagious chronicle diseases are present in contemporary society becoming priority issue in the global health system agenda. However, there are still few studies about this behavior among workers from graduate school institutions. So, the aim of this article is to identify and to analyse the occurrence of the chronicle noncommunicable diseases diabetes mellitus, high blood pressure, obesity and heart diseases and the factors associated to them in workers from the Federal University of Mato Grosso – Cuiabá Campus. This is an epidemiological, transversal study that had 474 servers per sample, to which was applied a self-fulfilling anonymous questionnaire. Were performed Descriptive and bivariate analyzes, as well as association measures Crude and adjusted, via calculation of the Prevalence Ratio (PR), with confidence interval of 95%. It was found that 50.7% of the servers reported owning at least one NCD, which were present with significant association in relation to chronological age, to the fact of having or not having children and to a lower education. Regarding the nutritional aspects, the type of feeding adopted presented exposure to NCD, being the most prevalent the consumption of soda (PR= 1,47, CI 95% 1,05-2,06). It is expected that this study will subsidizes actions of prevention and the adoption of healthy habits, as well as the scientific production to be socialized in undergraduate and graduate courses inside the discipline Occupational Health and, particularly, contribute with improving the quality of life of university servers.