Factors Influencing with Abdominal Obesity among Village Health Volunteers in Sukhothai Province

Abstract

This analytic cross-sectional study was to investigate influence ofdemographic factors, health behavior factors, perceived on abdominal obesity (AO) factors, and enable to prevent AO factors on AO among Village Health Volunteer (VHV) in Sukhothai Province. Samples of VHVs were 360 which were drawn by multi-stagerandom sampling method. Data were collected by questionnaire including; health behavior questionnaire, perceived on abdominal obesity, and enable to prevent AO. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and multiple logistic regression analysis. The results revealed that female VHVs were more likely to be AO about 25.91times (ORadj. = 25.91,95% CI: 8.35-80.41), an increasing of body mass index was more likely to AO about 3.41 times (ORadj. = 3.41, 95% CI: 2.55-4.56) and an increasing of self-efficacy to prevent AO was more likely to prevent AO 0.88 times (ORadj. = 0.88, 95% CI: 0.77-0.99). The 4 factors were significantly influenced with AO which accounted for 77.7% of variation in VHVs (p < 0.05).The results suggested that public health personnel should create health behavior program emphasis on establish self-efficacy towards preventing AO, monitor the body mass index. This is an important in targeting appropriate on sex of VHVs in order to decrease risk of AO.