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http://dx.doi.org/10.15207/JKCS.2014.5.4.121

Necessity of the Development of a Web-based Obesity Management Program to Prevent Metabolic Syndrome of the Workers  

Kwon, Young-Sook (Dept. of Nursing, Joongbu University)
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Journal of the Korea Convergence Society / v.5, no.4, 2014 , pp. 121-127 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was executed to provide the basic data to prevent and manage the workers' metabolic syndrome (MS) in workplace by analyzing the health examination data of 1,152 workers at the ages from 19 to 34 and comparing the differences in MS prevalence, its components and living habits according to obesity. As a result, MS prevalence showed 8.9% in male and 1.5% in female respectively. MS prevalence according to obesity showed the differences that prevalence of male subjects without obesity was 1.6% and 21.7% with obesity and prevalence of female subjects without obesity was 0% and 12.5% with obesity. Components of MS according to obesity showed 4 factors except hypertriglyceridemia were significantly related with obesity in female subjects and all factors were significantly related with obesity in male subjects. With the above results, obesity is identified as the risk factor affecting MS prevalence and components of younger than 40 year old workers. Therefore, it is suggested health manager should consistently implement obesity management to prevent and manage the MS in working place and increase the workers' participation through the development and utilization of a web-based obesity management program considering space-time restriction and efficiently manage the MS.
Keywords
Worker; Metabolic syndrome; Prevention; Web-based; Obesity management program;
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