Psychosocial risk factors and sleep quality in teachers in an educational unit

Abstract

Psychosocial risk factors influence the health of the worker, one of the damages are sleep disturbances. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine the impact of psychosocial risk factors on sleep quality. It was a study with a quantitative approach, non-experimental, cross-sectional and correlational design, which was carried out with 31 teachers from a primary and secondary educational unit. The psychosocial risk factor questionnaire was used in the academic work of Silva (2006), adapted and validated by Pando, Varillas, Aranda and Elizalde (2016); and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, taken from Jiménez-Genchi, Monteverde-Maldonado, Nenclares-Portocarrero, Esquivel-Adame, and Vega-Pacheco (2008). The following results were obtained: 90.3% of the study population was exposed to psychosocial risk factors and 80.6% had poor sleep quality. There was a significant relationship between work demands and sleep quality, there were no significant relationships with the rest of the psychosocial factors and sleep quality. The female sex was more affected by working conditions. It was concluded that participants exposed to work demands were more likely to have poor sleep quality, exposure to psychosocial risk factors was high, and most had poor sleep quality; for which it is necessary to design mitigation plans and put them into practice.