Analysis and Survey of Different Lifestyles of Working Groups in Gansu Province

Objectives To learn the situation of obesity and over weight and lifestyles among civil servants,scientific and technical personnel,enterprise staffs,elementary and secondary school teachers and manual workers in Gansu province. Methods Using cluster sampling method to extract two cities in Gansu province,each city included five occupational groups,which were public servant,scientific and technical personnel,Enterprises and management personnel,teachers and manual workers,respectively.Occupational people aged 18~60 year-old were interviewed with Self-test health questionnaire. Results The smoking rates were 26.68%,32.30% and 21.68% respectively among all respondents,manual worker and elementary and secondary school teachers.55.69% of respondents had breakfast every day.Enterprise staffs had the highest proportion of having breakfast everyday(73.08%).The sleeping duration of scientific and technical personnel was longer than other four occupational groups.86.08% of staffs had a sleeping duration over 7 hours. Conclusions In the terms of lifestyle,diet habit,there still were many healthy problems in these 5 occupational groups.Related health education should be reinforced.