Examining the association between work stress, life stress and obesity among working adult population in Canada: findings from a nationally representative data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Obesity is a priority public health concern in Canada and other parts of the world. The study primarily aims at assessing the role of  self-perceived work and life stress on obesity among working adults in Canada.

Methods

The study was conducted based on a total of 104,636 Canadian adults aged 18 and above, extracted from the 2017-2018 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) data. We used a mixed-effect logistic regression model to determine the possible association between two stress variables and obesity, controlling for other variables in the model. The random effect term accounts for the correlation among the observations from the same health region.

Results

A total of 63,815 adult respondents (aged 18 and above) who were working during the 12 months pr

SUBMITTER: Geda NR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8966340 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature