Physical Activity Assessment of Overweight and Obese Physicians

Abstract

Relevance of the topic. Physical activity (FA) is a preventive measure to protect and enhance public health (World Health Organization, 2011), and its insufficiency is associated with several diseases. Meanwhile, a person’s  low physical activity is often associated with the risk of being overweight or obese (Chatterjee et al., 2020). Despite this, there is not a lot of scientific data on the physical activity of health care professionals  especially doctors who are overweight or obese, results, state the situation when doctors do not follow the recommended physical activity recommendations and are affected by overweight or obesity, are often determined by both the research methodology, the contingent of subjects, and the specifics of the country or region.

The purpose of the study: is to reveal the physical activity habits of overweight and obese physicians.

Research object: physical activity habits.

The results. The conducted study revealed that slightly more than half of the examined doctors are overweight or obese. There are more men than women in these categories of body mass index, and higher readings of obesity are found in those subjects with more than 10 years of work experience. Slightly more than a quarter of the subjects demonstrate unhealthy physical activity habits. In terms of gender, men dominate compared to women. An analysis of overweight and obese physicians based on their physical activity skill category revealed that overweight and obesity among the studied physicians tended to be associated with their physical activity skill category.

Keywords: physical activity, body mass index, obesity, overweight, healthcare professionals.