Qualidade de Vida e do Sono de Docentes Enfermeiros

Abstract

The teacher’s job is to teach, guide and encourage the students. The active nurses in teaching profession have a working day that requires dedication, what causes disorders in their quality of life and sleep. The quality of life involves some social and cultural aspects, being characterized by the complete well-being of the person. A poor sleep quality can bring damages in the day-by-day of people. The sleep deprivation and the excessive drowsiness are related to the decrease in the quality of life and productivity. The quality of life and sleep and the sleep disturbance, like drowsiness in the nurse’s job, are recent concerns observed in researches. The aim of this study was to analyze the quality of life and sleep of nursing teachers. This is a dissertation in scientific paper, compounding two articles. A cross-sectional study, which sample was composed by 44 nursing teachers of public, community and private college education institutions from Goiânia – GO. Four tools were used: file of sociodemographic, labor and lifestyle habits profile, Questionnaire of Sleep Quality Index from Pittsburgh (PSQI), Epworth Drowsiness Scale (ESE) and the World Health Organization Quality of Life Questionnaire (WHOQOL). The average age of participants were 45,23 years old. There was prevalence of female teachers (86,4%) and with title of Master (38,6%). The average individual monthly income was R$9.379,00 (±5.612,00) reais. The findings showed that 38,6% are with a good sleep quality, 61,4% are with bad sleep quality and 52,3% had daily drowsiness. The most of teachers presented a good quality of life. The conclusion is that some factors impaired the quality of life’s perception of these teachers, like having a weekly working workload higher than 40 hours, working three shifts, using cell phone before sleeping, ingesting sleep medication, being younger, having higher income and less time of graduation and teaching. Teachers who have a higher individual monthly income and take sleep medication, have a worst sleep quality. Doctors who work more than 40 hours weekly present more daily drowsiness. This study can develop the managers’ view, with the purpose to improve the labor conditions of these professionals, what reflects in their quality of life and sleep, in personal or work sphere.