Objective: The aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between secretaries’ physical activity level and nutritional diversity and body mass index.

Materials and Method: This cross-sectional study included 137 people working as secretaries at a university hospital. Further, we obtained the ethics committee approval and institutional permissions for this study. The questionnaire form used in the study included dietary diversity scores, body mass index and physical activity levels. The chi-square test and Spearman’s correlation test were used for statistical analysis. p<0.05 was considered significant for all evaluations.

Results: Of the research study group, 38.7% of the secretaries were found to be overweight. In addition, 32.8% of them were not physically active. A significant negative correlation was found between the body mass index and both the physical activity level and the dietary diversity score, whereas a positive significant correlation was found between dietary diversity scores and physical activity levels (p<0.001).

Conclusions: A significant number of the secretaries in the study group were overweight and approximately one in three of them had no physical activities. We observed that with an increase in the body mass index, the physical activity and the diet diversity decreased.