title: Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome among nursing personnel and its association with occupational stress, anxiety and depression.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to identify the prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome among nursing personnel, and its association with occupational stress, anxiety and depression.
  
  
  METHODS
  a descriptive correlational study undertaken with 226 nursing personnel from a teaching hospital. Data collection was undertaken through application of the Job Stress Scale, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and a sociodemographic questionnaire, with variables of Metabolic Syndrome. Univariate analyses and Chi-squared and Pearson tests were used for correlation between the variables, with a level of significance of 5%.
  
  
  RESULTS
  86 (38.1%) workers presented Metabolic Syndrome, of whom 183 (81.1%) were female, and 43 (19.9%) male, aged between 23 and 66 years old. In relation to anxiety and depression, 154 (68.1%) presented anxiety, with 48 (31.2%) also presenting Metabolic Syndrome; 185 (81.8%) presented depression, of whom 62 (33.5%) also had Metabolic Syndrome. It was ascertained that 61 (27.0%) workers presented stress and that of these, 14 (22.9%) presented Metabolic Syndrome.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  a correlation was observed between the variables of anxiety and Metabolic Syndrome and stress and Metabolic Syndrome, there being no correlation between the variables of depression and Metabolic Syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, BR.
authors.forename: Renata Perfeito
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Ribeiro
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, BR.
authors.forename: Maria Helena Palucci
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Marziale
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, BR.
authors.forename: Julia Trevisan
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Martins
authors.affiliation: Clínica Odontológica Universitária, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, BR.
authors.forename: Patrícia Helena Vivan
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Ribeiro
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, BR.
authors.forename: Maria Lucia do Carmo Cruz
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Robazzi
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, BR.
authors.forename: José Carlos
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Dalmas
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001007:Anxiety / Q000150:complications*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003863:Depression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D024821:Metabolic Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009729:Nursing; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D015995:Prevalence; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications*; D055815:Young Adult