Eating and Physical Activity Patterns of the Population Working in the Uruguayan State Electrical Company. (PAF)

Stuydy of eatin and physical activity patterns in Uruguayan workers and association with obesity, overweight, and tasks.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Diet Habit; Weight, Body

Detailed Description

A sample of workers from the electrical company will be studies as to eating and physical activity patterns, weight variations, and assigned tasks.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 1964

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Mercedes M Medina Vadora, MSC; Phone Number: 59899757969; Email: lic.mercedesmedina@gmail.com
• Study Contact Backup: Name: Cecilia M Severi, DR; Phone Number: 59899577626; Email: severi.cecilia@gmail.com

Study Locations

• Uruguay
  • Montevideo, Uruguay, 11800
    • Recruiting
    • Servicio Medico - UTE
    • Contact: Mercedes M Medina Vadora, MSC; Phone Number: 59899757969; Email: lic.mercedesmedina@gmail.com

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 69 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

It will include all the officials who joined the company from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2017. They are 1964 aged between 18 and 65 years old.They are living in Montevideo and 416 are women and 1,548 are men.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• It will include all the officials who joined the company from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2017, of whom they are between 18 and 65 years old, and the total was from 1964.

Exclusion Criteria:

• On the other hand, regarding the officials who meet the inclusion criteria, the following exclusion criteria are established. Therefore, those officials who:

  • Do not have a medical check-up at admission and at least one checkup between one year and two years after entering the company
  • Officials who no longer continue to work at the institution at the date of the study.
  • Participants who do not have weight and height recorded in the medical record

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Observational Models: Cohort
• Time Perspectives: Retrospective

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Weight	weight in kilograms will be taken records and in person from 2010	2010 at 2020
Height	Height in meters will be taken records and in person from 2010	2010 at 2020
Body mass index	body mass index in weight / meters squared	2010 at 2020

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Diet by 24 hours recall	Diet in investigated with 24 hours recall	2020
Diet by frequency of food consumption	Frequency of food consumption semi-qualitative	2020

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Physical activity	Physical activity will be measured with International Physical Activity Questionnaires (IPAQ)	2020
Acelerometer	The accelerometer is shown as one of the most accurate techniques in recording and saving the amount and level of physical activity, by each person in a given period of time.	2020
Typs of job	sedentary or active type of work	2010 at 2020

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Administración Nacional de Usinas y Transmisiones Eléctricas
• Collaborators: Universidad de Granada; Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica; Universidad de la Republica
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Carlos Lecot, Dr., Servicio Medico UTE - Sta Fe 1041, 11800 Montevideo, Uruguay

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Medina-Vadora MM, Severi C, Lecot C, Ruiz-Lopez MD, Gil A. Study of Food Intake and Physical Activity Patterns in the Working Population of the Uruguayan State Electrical Company (UTE): Design, Protocol and Methodology. Nutrients. 2021 Oct 9;13(10):3545. doi: 10.3390/nu13103545.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): July 1, 2020
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): May 1, 2021
• Study Completion (Anticipated): September 1, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 23, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 10, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): August 12, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 12, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 10, 2020
• Last Verified: August 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: physical activity; Diet; Work related
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Body Weight
• Other Study ID Numbers: MMVadora

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No