Abstract
Objective: Determine the healthy lifestyle and work stress in Nurses who care for patients with COVID -19, at the National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases, Lima, 2020. Study: Quantitative, correlational, cross-sectional approach and non-experimental design. Population: it was made up of the 65 nurses who work in the Covid-19 area. Instruments: 2 questionnaires were used: Healthy lifestyle, consisting of 3 dimensions: physical activity, eating habits, sleep dimension. Work stress, which consists of 3 dimensions: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and personal fulfillment. Both instruments with Likert scale were validated by expert judgment with a reliability of 0.8 and 0.7 respectively. The results found that there is a correlation between both variables. In addition, it predominates in nurses who mostly have inadequate healthy lifestyles. Also, the moderate level of stress is a problem affected in their emotional health in times of pandemic. It is concluded that it is important before these health problems require the implementation of improvement plans to promote self-care and avoid occupational health problems.
Highlights
Lifestyles are patterns of behavior or attitudes that people adopt to respond responsibly to a modern social trend of considerable influence in relation to health
It was found that 72.3% of nurses have an unhealthy lifestyle while 27.7% have a healthy lifestyle
At present there are vertiginous changes in the general population regarding the lifestyle of people, the concern about aspects related to food, physical and psychological activity which are associated with the care of physical and mental health, a situation that does not It is alien to health personnel, who, in addition to having to adapt to these changes in society's lifestyle, have to face the emergency situation that different hospitals are going through, the concerns that can be overwhelming and cause states of stress, fear, depression that, if not managed properly, can trigger the appearance of physical and psychological disorders that affect the health of health workers (WHO, 2017)
Summary
Lifestyles are patterns of behavior or attitudes that people adopt to respond responsibly to a modern social trend of considerable influence in relation to health. Given that in the study's statistics, Brazilians and Peruvians occupied high indices, such as the largest consumers of fast food, with figures 10 times higher than spending in Bolivia, being below Canada and the United States (PAHO, 2015) In this sense, we can affirm that personal factors circumscribe biological, sociocultural, psychological and general characteristics, which significantly influence human behavior, assessing age, health status, socio-economic status, ethnic origin and the specific effects of the behavior that includes perceived benefits and barriers, self-efficacy and affect related to interpersonal activity and situational influences (García et al, 2012). Healthy lifestyles help prevent biopsychosocial, spiritual imbalances, in order to preserve both physical and mental health, it is stated under multiple patterns that affect our daily life, since behavior is not produced by itself, but is influenced by social, cultural and environmental factors, such as the characteristics of each individual (Uriarte and Vargas, 2018)
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