Factors Related to Cardiovascular Endurance Physical Fitness Of Health Workers in Sichon Hospital, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province

Abstract

Background: Cardiovascular endurance fitness is a part of physical fitness which enables humans to work for long periods with improved body function and decreased risk of diseases. Studying factors related to cardiovascular endurance physical fitness of health workers will assist in finding ways to appropriately improve their cardiovascular endurance fitness.

Objective: To study facilitating factorsrelated to cardiovascular endurance physical fitness of health workers in Sichon Hospital, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province.Design: Cross-sectional studyMaterials and Methods: There were 222 people attended by simple random sampling from October to December 2019. The questionnaires were analyzed by using the frequency and calculated the relationship by using the statistics of Chi-square, univariate analysis and odds ratio in the level of statistical significance as p-value < 0.05 and a multi-variate logistic regression model.

Results: Most of the health workers in Sichon Hospital, 67.1%, had unfit cardiovascular endurance. Stress was a factor associated with cardiovascular endurance physical fitness. Usual stress significantly had a risk of fit cardiovascular endurance 0.10 times more than no stress or slightly stressed (p-value 0.032).

Conclusion: The primary factor associated with the cardiovascular endurance physical fitness of health workers in Sichon Hospital, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province was stress, which was not correlated with other previous studies. The suggestion is to do further research about relationship between stress and physical fitness among healthcare workers due to shiftwork, workload, which different causes and level of stress could result in different level of physical fitness.

Keywords: physical fitness, cardiovascular endurance, health worker, stress, Sichon Hospital