[Influence of the labor quality of life on the employeeperformance of public hospitals from Mexico: a vision based on the team management].

Objective: To assess the relationship between labor quality of life (LQL) and organizational workers performance (OWP) from seven public hospitals, analyzing the influence of the personnel management (PM) as mediator of this relationship.

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 866 professionals and managers of public hospitals from Tlaxcala and Mexico City. The LQL was assessed with a validated questionnaire, OWP with 34 indicators, and PM with an instrument designed for this study.

Mealtime habits and risk of developing the metabolic syndrome or insulin resistance among Mexican adults.

Meals are an important source of food intake, contributing to body weight and health status. Previous studies have examined the relationship between isolated mealtime behaviours and the metabolic syndrome (MetS). The aim of this study was to examine the influence over time of ten interrelated mealtime habits on the risk of developing the MetS and insulin resistance (IR) among Mexican adults.

Influence of mealtime habits on the risk of weight gain and obesity in Mexican adults.

Objective: To prospectively examine the extent to which mealtime habits influences the risk of weight gain and obesity in Mexican adults.

Design: We performed a prospective cohort study. The Mealtime Habits Quality (MHQ) scale was used for assessing participants' MHQ; the outcomes of interest were gain ≥5 % of body weight, developing overweight/obesity and abdominal obesity, after 7 years of follow-up.