Evaluation of the effectiveness of optimizing the nutrition of workers with a multi-component product from plant raw materials for different durations of intense mental work
Authors:   Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education «Privolzhsky Research Medical University» of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Rakhmanov R. S. , Bogomolova E. S. ,   Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education «Privolzhsky Research Medical University» of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Narutdinov D. A. ,   Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education «Krasnoyarsk State Medical University named after. prof. V. F. Voino-Yasenetsky» Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Razgulin S. A. ,   Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education «Privolzhsky Research Medical University» of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Antyuganov S. N. ,   Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education «Privolzhsky Research Medical University» of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Sabanova A. O. ,   Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education «Privolzhsky Research Medical University» of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Published: November 2024

Healthy nutrition affects mental well-being and is important for increasing stress
resistance. The objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of optimizing the nutrition of workers
with a multi-component product made from plant materials for different durations of intense
mental work. Physiological and hygienic testing was conducted on the psychodiagnostic complex
«Multipsychometer» of men engaged in mental work, divided into two groups: duration up to 10
(No. 1) and more (No. 2) years. Their working conditions were assessed. Persons of the main (nn =
13 and 17) groups took a natural product made from plant materials, comparison groups (nn = 13
and 17) ate as usual. In the initial state and on the 22nd day, professionally important qualities were
assessed according to G. Isaac and Spielberg. Labor had a negative impact on the psychological
state: in those employed for up to 10 years, changes were determined by self-assessment of wellbeing
and mental activity; in those employed for more than 10 years, 41.2 % had unsatisfactory
well-being and mental activity, 35.3 % had decreased motivation, and 11.8 % had high situational
anxiety. The impact of labor was confirmed by the results of repeated testing in comparison
groups No. 1 and No. 2: in the first, well-being and physical activity worsened, while in the second,
situational anxiety increased. Optimization of the diet with a multicomponent product showed a
statistically significant difference in the «well-being» and «motivation» indicators in the group of
individuals with up to 10 years of work experience; according to individual indicators, there was
an increase in self-assessment: «well-being is satisfactory,» physical activity is «above average,»
and mental activity is «average.» In the group with longer work experience, statistically significant
improvement in well-being and physical activity was established; according to individual data —
improvement in well-being, physical activity, increased stress resistance. Optimization of nutrition
allows to reduce the risk of the influence of working conditions on the intensity of the work
process on the health of workers.