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In recent years overweight and obesity are a public health problem, this attention to the integrity of diverse types of professions where the work context from home and interaction with computer equipment are part of the new work models. Currently part of these jobs with a high prevalence of these work characteristics are teachers, the problem lies in an inadequate intake of food and little physical activity because of their work. Hence, assessing nutritional status based on body mass index in teachers of an educational institution in three academic periods, including a period of teleworking. For this, anthropometric indicators and statistical analysis based on a spreadsheet are used, this descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with the data of forty-five teachers, of which 27% were men and 73% were women. Data were described using mean and confidence intervals, with comparative analysis by sex. Among the main results, it was determined that there was a prevalence of overweight of 42% and obesity of 18.0%, being more critical for men. In the end, it can be concluded that there is no malnutrition or underweight, but that overweight and obesity were highly prevalent, and that two-thirds of 60% of the teachers of the educational unit suffer from them, that is, they are slightly higher than those reported for the country (62.8%), in the National Health and Nutrition Survey in 2012.
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Moreno Medina, V., Bermudez, L., Lara-Calle, A. (2022). Effects of Teleworking on the Body Mass Index of the Teachers of an Educational Institution. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S., Salvendy, G. (eds) HCI International 2022 – Late Breaking Posters. HCII 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1655. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19682-9_41
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