Prevalence of Stress and its Associated with Body Weight among Patients Attending the Primary Health Care during Covid-19 in Makkah Al-Mukarramah, 2022

Abstract

Background

     Lockdown measures have a profound effect on many aspects of daily life relevant for stress and its associated with Body weight among patients whether lockdown measures in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, differentially affect perceived stress, body weight, exercise. The World Health Organization declared coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) a pandemic. The pandemic has affected more than 100 countries since it started. Within about a year and half of this declaration, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in more than 4.3 million fatalities worldwide and a vast economic crisis with millions of people losing their job, stress and its associated with Body weight among patients is emerging as a serious problem throughout the world, not only among adults, but also health care worker and children, teenagers and young adults. Of the factors contributing to change of the body weight among patients , stress seems to be particularly important as stressful condition leads to irregularity in patients in work, lack of exercise.

Aim of the study: To Prevalence of stress and its associated with Body weight among patients attending the primary health care during Covid-19 in Makkah Al-Mukarramah ,2022.

Method: Cross-sectional analytical study has been conducted patients attending the primary health care during Covid-19 among at Primary Health Care Centers in Makkah city, that included all patients attending the primary health care during Covid-19 during data collection period 2022 the perceived stress scale-10 questionnaire used to measure the stress score. Weight and height were collected based on self-reported value.  The total sample has been (200) patients.

Result: the age majority of the study groups were in the age range of (25-35) years were (32.0%), weight changes during the quarantine in Covid-19 the majority of the respondents didn’t know were (45.0%), the BMI the majority of the respondents in Normal weight were (44.0%) they Continue Working During Covid-19 the majority of the respondents answer Yes were (66.0%).

Conclusion: Stress is prevalent and its associated with Body weight among patients attending the primary health care during Covid-19 in Makkah we found a positive correlation between BMI and stress but and concomitant effects on eating, need for interventions to minimize the stress and Body weight among patients, preventive measures should be implanted to reduce the level of stress and interventional studies are needed among patients at Primary Health Care Centers.