The Behavioural Risk Factors Contributing to Non-Communicable Diseases among Women Sheeba S1,*, Rima R.2, Suresh Parvathy2 1Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Nursing, Amrita College of Nursing, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India 2Fourth Year B Sc Nursing students, Amrita College of Nursing, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India *Corresponding Author: Sheeba S, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Nursing, Amrita College of Nursing, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi-682041, Kerala, India. Phone: 9656136895, E-mail: aswinprasadsheeba@gmail.com.
Online published on 13 November, 2019. Abstract Objective To assess the prevalence of behavioural risk factors for non-communicable diseases in working and nonworking women. Materials and Method Quantitative approach with descriptive survey design and convenience sampling technique was used. The study conducted among 70 working and 70 nonworking women above the age of 20 years, residing at Nayarambalam Panchayath, Ernakulam district. Data were collected by house-to house survey using World Health Organization STEP-instrument for the surveillance of noncommunicable disease risk factors (WHO-STEP 1 & STEP 2questionnaires). Descriptive statistics and Chi-square test were used for analysis. Result Majority of the working women (71.4%) and non working (61.4%)was in the age group of 31-50yrs. The mean age was 44.7years for working and 41.32 years for nonworking women. Overweight was found high among (41.42%) working women, when compared to (21.42%)nonworking women. Abdominal obesity is found high 34.28% and very high 11.42% among working women when compared to 10% and 7.14% among nonworking women. It was found that non working women had inadequate vegetable intake compared to working women (x2 = 34.392, df =5, p = 0.000) and also fruit intake was higher among working women compared to non working women (x2 = 14.3313, df = 3, p = 0.002). Working women(52.85%) had low physical activity when compared to nonworking women (22.85%). It was also found that diabetes mellitus was diagnosed among working women compared to nonworking women during the study (x2 = 5.1853, df = 1, p = 0.023) and dyslipidemia was higher among working women (x2 = 6.2693, df =1, p =0.012). Conclusion Behavioural risk factors like overweight, obesity, abdominal obesity and low physical activity were higher among working women. There is an urgent need of community based screening and health promotional activites to reduce the burden of non communicable disease. Top Keywords Behavioural risk factors, Noncommunicable diseases, Working women, Non working women. Top |