Volume 24, Issue 105, September - October, 2020

Prevalence and determinants of physical activity among adult patients attending primary health care centers in Makkah Almokarramah, Saudi Arabia 2018

Abdul Rahman Talal Taeyb¹, Adel Alghamdi²

¹Family medicine resident, joint program Makkah, Saudi Arabia
²Diabetes Consultant, Diabetes and Endocrine Center, Hera General Hospital, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Background: Physical activity can be defined as any movement of the body that requires energy expenditure. This includes any motion you do through the day excluding sitting still or lying down. For example, walking to class, taking the stairs, mowing the lawn, and even cleaning your house can be considered physical activity. Exercise is a type of physical activity but not every physical activity is exercise. Exercise is a planned, structured, and repetitive activity for improving or maintains physical fitness. Physical inactivity is recognized as one of the leading risk factor for mortality around the world that leads to an estimated 3.2 million deaths globally. Saudi Arabia has undergone a drastic change in life style and eating habits. Burden of life style related diseases such as diabetes, coronary artery diseases and hypertension has increased and these diseases are associated with physical inactivity. These diseases have become the principal cause of morbidity and mortality in Saudi Arabia. Aim of this study: To describe the prevalence and factors associated with physical activity among adult patients who attend primary health care centers in Makkah city, Saudi Arabia. Methodology: Cross sectional design will be adopted. The study will be conducted in Makkah city, Saudi Arabia. The present study was conducted at primary health care centers In Makkah city, Cluster sampling technique was be applied on the three main sectors inside Makkah city (alzahir, alka'akiah, and ala'adl). Systematic random sampling was be adopted to select persons .The sample (385) from adult patients aged 18 years and above who will attend primary health care (PHC) centers. Results: the response rate was (100%) participants, majority of participants are male were (69.00%) while female’s was (31.00%). The majority of our participants were at overweight and obese (51.0%), a significant relation between BMI and Physical activities Conclusion: Physical activity likely has a greater role in promoting health in disease populations than previously thought and may confer substantial reductions in disease burden Primary health care centers in Makkah should be active and able to provide health advice and behaviour to their patients. There will a strong intention to increase physical activity among physically inactive primary care physicians (PHCPs). Recommendations: The priority for variables classified as consistently associated with physical exercise should be to apply these findings to improving interventions. The no modifiable demographic variables suggest subgroups of relatively inactive adult people that need to be targeted for special intervention programs. Subgroups at risk for being inactive include adult and children developed to change these variables through education, family programs, or environmental and policy change. Future research could examine prospectively whether increases in physical activity in unhealthy disease adults lead to a healthier status.

Keywords: Prevalence, Determinants, Physical Activity, Adult, Patients, Primary Health Care Centers, Saudi Arabia

Medical Science, 2020, 24(105), 2948-2962

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