Adherence To Healthy Lifestyle Among Medical Workers In Routine Practice And During The COVID-19 Pandemic Abroad

Abstract

Introduction. A healthy lifestyle is a lifestyle aimed at preventing emergence and development of non-communicable diseases characterized by exclusion or reduction of behavioral risk factors. Adherence to the principles of healthy lifestyle among medical workers abroad is of great importance. Therefore, it is relevant to study foreign experience related to adherence to healthy lifestyle among medical professionals (doctors and nursing staff), both in routine practice and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Materials and methods. During a search for the keywords “healthy lifestyle”, “medical workers” and “pandemic” in the period from 2014 to 2023 conducted in the PubMed international database, more than a thousand of systematic reviews, meta-analyses and articles on relevant scientific and practical topics were found. Results of interest included occupational health and health behavior of medical workers. After the final selection and exclusion of the results that are scientifically and practically insignificant, 30 sources from 27 countries were included in the analysis. The authors assessed the quality of these reviews, meta-analyses and articles and obtained new summarized data on the topic.

Results and discussion. The article presents analysis and summary of 30 systematic reviews, meta-analyses and articles published from 2014 to 2023 by authors from 27 countries. For this purpose, the results of an analysis of adherence to healthy lifestyle among medical workers, the relationship of lifestyle and health-related behavior; lifestyle, shift work and health; lifestyle and disease development in routine practice as well as during the COVID-19 pandemic were presented.

Conclusion. The correlation of lifestyle and health-related behavior of medical workers; lifestyle, shift work and health; lifestyle and disease development in routine practice as well as during the COVID-19 pandemic were revealed. Optimizing recommendations suggesting necessary and appropriate measures to improve the adherence to healthy lifestyle among medical workers were elaborated.