Self-regluation of Dietary habits in Family Medicine Residents with Overweight or Obesity

Abstract

Objective: to identify the presence of self-regulation of dietary habits in Family Medicine resident doctors with overweight or obesity of the Family Medicine Unit (fmu) No. 20 in Mexico City. Methods: cross-sectional and retrospective study, 65 Family Medicine residents participated. They were weighted, heighted and the bmi was calculated; the World Health Organization (who) classification was used to assess the nutritional status. For those resident doctors who were overweight or obese (n=41) the self-regulation instrument of dietary habits was applied which measures three domains: self-observation, self-evaluation, and self-reaction. The test of Wilcoxon was used for the associations study (p≤0. 05), statistical analysis was conducted using the spss v. 22 program. Results: 67.7% of the participants were women (n=44), the average age was 29.5 years; 50.76% (n=33) presented overweight, 12.30% (n=8) obesity. There was an association in the self-observation domain in the first and second year resident doctors (p=0.04) and in those in second and third year (p=0.01) there was not a significant association in self-evaluation and self-reaction. Conclusions: it was determined that resident doctors with overweight or obesity identified negative behaviors associated with their dietary habits, However, they did not establish actions to modify their weight.