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- Dong-Kyun Lim1, Ki-Ook Baek1, In-Sung Chung1,2, Mi-Young Lee1,2
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Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2014;26:11-11.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/2052-4374-26-11
Published online: May 22, 2014
1Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Dongsan Medical Center of Keimyung University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
2Department of Preventive Medicine, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea
• Received: December 31, 2013 • Accepted: April 23, 2014
Copyright © 2014 Lim et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
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Abstract
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Objectives The aim of this study was to investigate factors associated with sleep disorders in male firefighters working in a metropolitan city in South Korea.
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Methods Self-administered questionnaires including the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire, Korean Occupational Stress Scale-Short Form, Psychosocial Well-Being Index-Short Form, Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index, and Beck-Depression Inventory-2 as well as surveys collecting socio-demographic characteristics and work-related factors were given to 730 male firefighters. After exclusion for missing data, 657 male firefighters were included, and logistic regression analysis adjusted for the work-related factors, psychosocial factors, and general risk factors were used to assess the relationship between sleep disorders and associated factors.
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Results The prevalence of sleep disorders was 48.7%. Shift work (adjusted OR 1.58, 95% CI = 1.02-2.45), musculoskeletal symptoms (adjusted OR 2.89, 95% CI = 2.02-4.14), and depression (adjusted OR 7.04 95% CI = 4.03-12.30) were associated with sleep disorders.
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Conclusions Musculoskeletal symptoms, shift work, and depression are associated with sleep disorders. Integrated health management is needed to promote good sleep quality among firefighters.
Introduction
Sleep is essential for normal life and very important for health. Sleep disorders negatively influence the health of individuals sometimes causing gastrointestinal disorders, fatigue, and tension as well as negatively influence socio-economic potential through loss of productivity and can decrease concentration, which may lead to accidents and injuries [1,2]. As modern society changes, becomes more complicated, and grows, the prevalence of sleep disorders is increasing, and sleep disorders area rising social issue that may lead to economic losses not only for the individuals but also for the entire society. In South Korea, a telephone survey of 5,000 people 20–69 years of age found that 22.8% reported having a sleep disorder [3]. In addition, another study surveying normal adults reported that 31% suffered from sleep difficulties including difficulties falling asleep, waking up frequently, or waking up too early [4]. Moreover, among relevant studies conducted outside of South Korea, a majority of normal adults also reported suffering from a sleep disorder. For example, 10%–30% of normal adults in one previous study were found to be suffering from a sleep disorder [5-7].
Considering that firefighters in South Korea are national government officers who not only handle fire control/prevention but also perform rescue/first aid activities during disasters and other emergencies [8], exposure to physical and mental health problems as well as sleep disorders is highly likely. A recent study on sleep disorders among US firefighters reported that 59% of firefighters were suffering from a sleep disorder [9]. In Brazil, a study conducted in 2012 reported that 51% of firefighters were suffering from a sleep disorder [10]. In Iran, 69.9% of firefighters also had a sleep disorder [11]. Studies investigating sleep disorders among firefighters tend to indicate that the prevalence among firefighters is much higher than that of normal adults and sleep disorders among firefighters negatively affect health and the ability to perform daily activities [9-11].
Personal and occupational factors are related to the prevalence of sleep disorders. Personal factors include sex, age, living habits and environment, medical history, and any mental disorders [12,13], whereas occupational factors include incidents of occupational stress or traumatic events, employment type as well as various other factors that lead to mental and physical stress [14,15]. Firefighters are exposed to various harmful factors, urgent calls, and an irregular daily schedule [16], and this kind of occupational environment can lead to various health disorders such as physical and mental stress, which are believed to be related to the high rate of sleep disorders among firefighters. These health problems may be thought of as a personal problem, but should also be considered a social issue because firefighters serve as government officers in charge of social wellbeing. Therefore, a sustainable management program is necessary to resolve any health problems related to sleep disorders among firefighters.
We aimed to identify firefighters with sleep disorder sand analyze various factors that may affect sleep quality, such as socio-demographic, psychosocial, and occupational factors.
Materials and methods
Firefighters (n = 730, all males) from five fire stations in a metropolitan city in South Korea who visited a general hospital for an annual health examination between November 24, 2011 and December 22, 2011were surveyed. Among them, 73 subjects had missing responses leaving 657 firefighters as our final study population.
After explaining the purpose of the study and receiving informed consent from all subjects, data were collected via standardized self-administered questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of socio-demographic, occupational, and psychosocial characteristics as well as occupational stressors. Socio-demographic characteristics included age, marital status, alcohol intake, smoking, body mass index, and exercise. Occupational characteristics included years of service, shift work, departmental affiliation, and musculoskeletal symptoms. Psychosocial characteristics included sleep quality, depression, and psychosocial health, and occupational stressors were collected using 24 questions from the short form of the Korean Occupational Stress Scale.
Musculoskeletal symptoms were evaluated using the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency’s Guidelines on Occupational Harms Affecting the Musculoskeletal System (KOSHA code H-30-208) [17]. Those who experienced pain that persisted for more than a week during the previous year or experienced pain at least once a month (NIOSH Level 1) were classified accordingly.
The Korean version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) was used, which was developed by the University of Pittsburgh. The PSQI consists of seven factors and the sum of the points from all seven factors (0–21 points) determines sleep quality and the higher score the worse the sleep quality. We also applied the 6-point scale introduced by Buysse et al. [18] that classifies anyone with <6 points as the ‘good sleep group’ and those with ≥ 6 points as the ‘poor sleep group’.
For psychosocial health, the Psychosocial Well-Being Index Short Form [19], which summarizes the Psychosocial Well-Being Index and corrected for General health Questionnaire-60 for use in South Korea, was used to measure the level of psychosocial stress. The short form consists of 18 questions with a possible score between 0 and 54. Those with ≤8 points, 9–26 points, and 27 points were classified as the ‘healthy group’, ‘latent stress group’, and ‘stress group,’ respectively.
Depression was measured with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), which is the most widely used clinical survey in Korea, and is used to identify patients with depression. The BDI-2 is the modified version of the original BDI and is based on the new standards of depression diagnosis. It consists of 21 questions that apply a Likert-type scale of 0 through 3. The points from all 21 questions are added to obtain the total score (range 0–63 points). In the US, a score of 0–13 points, 14–19 points, 20–28, or 26–63 points from the BDI-2 is classified as ‘normal’, ‘mild depression’, ‘moderate depression’, or ‘severe depression’, respectively [20]. However, we adopted a more simple classification; those with scores <13 points or ≥13 points were classified as the ‘normal group’ or ‘depression group’, respectively.
The occupational stress factors were measured using the Korean Occupational Stress Scales Short Form that evaluates occupational stress factors across seven categories as follows: job demand, insufficient job control, interpersonal conflict, job insecurity, organizational system, lack of rewards, and occupational climate [21]. We identified the median scores of each of the seven categories and of the total score to classify subjects as either the ‘high stress group’ or ‘low stress group’ when their score was greater than the median score or less than the median score, respectively.
The relativity between sleep quality (good vs. poor sleep) and age, years of service, or psychosocial health was analyzed using the linear–by-linear association, while the relativity between sleep quality and marital status, exercise, alcohol intake, smoking, obesity, musculoskeletal pain, shifts, employment, depression, occupational stress, and the total sum of all measured scores was analyzed using the chi-squared test. To identify factors that may influence sleep quality, factors with strong relativity among those with statistical significance in the univariate analysis were corrected for and applied as independent variables, and sleep quality was applied as the dependent variable in the logistic regression analysis. Model I included the socio-demographic characteristics as the independent variables, and model II applied the socio-demographic characteristics and musculoskeletal symptoms as the independent variables. Model III included the socio-demographic characteristics, musculoskeletal symptoms, occupational stress, and depression as the independent variables. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated. All data were analyzed using SPSS version 19.0 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA), and the significance level was set at 0.05.
Results
Within our total population of 657 subjects, the majority were aged between 30–40 years (79 subjects [12.0%] < 29 years, 221 subjects [33.6%] 30–39 years, 261 subjects [39.7%] 40–49 years, and 96 subjects [14.6%] ≥ 50 years). For years of service, 280 subjects (42.6%) had less than 10 years of service, 226 subjects (34.4%) had between 10 and 20 years, and 151 subjects (23%) had more than 20 years of service. In addition, 522 subjects (79.5%) were married, 325 subjects (49.5%) were exercising regularly more than 3 times/week, 395 subjects (59.8%) drank alcohol more than 2 times/month, 140 subjects (21.5%) were currently smoking, and 237 subjects (36.1%) were obese with a body mass index more than 25 kg/m2. Moreover, 514 subjects (78.2%) were shift workers, 499 subjects (76%) worked in the field, and 241 subjects (36.7%) had musculoskeletal pain (Table 1).
Table 1
General and psychosocial characteristics of the study population (n = 657)
There were 320 subjects (48.7%) with poor sleep quality and 121 subjects (18.4%) with depression. In addition, 68 subjects (10.4%) had normal levels of psychosocial stress, 482 subjects (73.4%) were in the latent stress group, and 107 subjects (16.2%) were in the stress group (Table 1). In terms of occupational stress, the mean scores ± standard deviations for job demand, insufficient job control, interpersonal conflict, job security, organizational system, lack of rewards, and occupational climatewere43.5 ± 15.1, 48.6 ± 12.0, 35.8 ± 10.9, 30.1 ± 16.7, 43.2 ± 12.8, 41.0 ± 12.5, and 36.7 ± 14.6, respectively. For the total score of occupational stress, the mean ± standard deviation was 39.9 ± 8.8 (Table 2).
Table 2
Mean (standard deviation) scores from the Korean Occupational Stress Scale (KOSS)
For the relativity between sleep quality and the socio-demographic characteristics or occupational characteristics, the ratio of poor sleep significantly decreased with age (p = 0.003) as we found 41 subjects (51.9%) younger than 29, 125 subjects (56.6%) in their 30s, 118 subjects (45.2%) in their 40s, and 36 subjects (37.5%) in their. For years of service, the ratio of poor sleep also significantly decreased with longer years of service (p = 0.007) with 147 subjects (52.5%) with less than 10 years of service, 116 subjects (51.3%) with 10 to 20 years, and 57 subjects (37.7%) with more than 20 years of service. In terms of alcohol intake, the ratio of poor sleep was significantly higher among alcohol drinkers (p = 0.045) with 204 alcohol drinkers (51.9%) and 116 non-drinkers (43.9%) in the poor sleep group. In addition, the ratio of poor sleep was higher among non-administrative workers; there were 259 non-administrative workers (51.9%) and 61 administrative workers (38.6%) who had poor sleep quality. For the relationship between musculoskeletal pain and sleep quality, those with musculoskeletal pain (n = 163; 67.6%) had a significantly higher sleep quality than did those with no musculoskeletal pain (n = 157; 37.7%) (p = <0.001). Moreover, shift workers (n = 265; 51.6%) were significantly more likely to have poor sleep than their counterparts were (n = 55;38.5%) (p = 0.006). Considering the relativity between psychosocial characteristics and sleep quality, 10 subjects were in the healthy group (14.7%) based on their psychosocial stress score, 220 subjects were in the latent stress group (45.6%), and 90 subjects were in the stress group. These data indicate that the ratio of poor sleep increased with psychosocial stress (p < 0.001). Moreover, those with depression (n = 103; 85.1%) were significantly more likely to have poor sleep than the normal group (n = 217; 40.5%) was (p < 0.001) (Table 3). The relativity between occupational stress and sleep quality indicated that those with higher than the median scores for job demand (p = 0.001), insufficient job control (p = 0.001), job insecurity (p = 0.030), organizational system (p < 0.001), lack of rewards (p < 0.001), occupational climate (p < 0.001), and total job stress (p < 0.001) were significantly more likely to have poor sleep than their counterparts were (Table 4).
Table 3
Correlation of sleep quality with general and psychosocial factors
Table 4
Correlation between Korean Occupational Stress Scale (KOSS) score and sleep quality
Among the factors that were significantly related with sleep quality in univariate analysis, we found the relationships between age and years of service, shifts works and department of service, and psychosocial stress and depression to have strong relativity. Therefore, these factors were considered independent variables and added to our three logistic regression models to analyze their relativity with sleep quality. Model I corrected for age, alcohol intake, and shift work, model II corrected for musculoskeletal symptoms and all of the factors from model I, and model III corrected for occupational stress and depression in addition to the factors from model II. In model I, shift work had an OR of 1.66 (95% CI = 1.12–2.47) for poor sleep. In model II, alcohol intake had an OR of 1.41 (95% CI = 1.01–1.97), shift work had an OR of 1.63 (95% CI = 1.08–2.46), and musculoskeletal pain had an OR of 3.37 (95% CI = 2.40–4.74). Last, in model III, shift work had an OR of 1.58 (95% CI = 1.02–2.45) and musculoskeletal pain had an OR of 2.89 (95% CI = 2.02–4.14). In addition, depression was robustly associated with poor sleep with an OR of 7.04 (95% CI = 4.03–12.30) (Table 5).
Table 5
Logistic regression analysis of factors related to sleep quality
Discussion
We aimed to identify sleep disorders and its related factors within a population of male firefighters. In total, 320 out of 657 male firefighters (48.7%) had poor sleep quality, which is higher than the reported prevalence of sleep disorders in normal adults (10%-30%) [5-8]. In addition, in our multivariate logistic regression analysis, sleep quality was significantly related to shift work, depression, and musculoskeletal pain.
Previous studies have identified that shift work is related to various health problems such as cardiovascular diseases, metabolic syndrome, sleep disorders, mental diseases, digestive diseases, and cancer [22]. Some studies have reported that sleep disorders are strongly related to shift work. For example, one study found shift work to agitate the circadian rhythm and degrade sleep quality [23]. Another study reported that shift work causes physiological malfunctioning leading to sleep disorders, loss of appetite, and digestive problems [22]. There are also reports that workers in small manufacturing businesses and nurses are prone to suffer from sleep disorders [24,25]. Therefore, it is expected that firefighters may suffer from sleep disorders possibly due to their shift work and irregular schedules. We found that 78.2% of firefighters in our study were working in shifts and the shift workers had a higher ratio of sleep disorders than the non-shift workers did.
Depression is one of the psychiatric disorders with a high prevalence in both common people and working people groups [26]. Firefighters confront various occupational stressors that can be dangerous and urgent due to their working environment, the structure of their worksite, and interpersonal relationships. These stressors are known as risk factors leading to depression among firefighters [27], and occupational stress and symptoms of depression are strongly related to one another [28]. In addition, firefighters may become exposed to musculoskeletal disorders and the pain that results may also contribute to the development of depression [29]. Depression can cause various health problems and sleep disorders [30], which was an important factor in our study. One study reported that depression degrades sleep quality and may cause insomnia [31]. Moreover, depression and sleep disorders are risk factors for each other with mutual causality [32].
Psychosocial stress is significantly higher in groups that are tense or active at work [33]. Firefighters frequently experience tense moments at work because they cannot anticipate the critical conditions and always have to be ready for urgent calls. They also experience psychological stress in the field or when their co-workers are victims of accidents, and may undergo post-traumatic stress after working in severely damaged sites and seeing dead bodies or tragic injuries in the field [34]. These psychological stressors might explain the relationship with sleep disorders [5], and our study confirms these findings. However, psychosocial stress can cause other health problems such as depression and musculoskeletal symptoms [35-37]. As we previously mentioned, depression and musculoskeletal symptoms may be related to sleep disorders, and psychosocial stress may affect depression and musculoskeletal pain that might also indirectly influence sleep disorders.
The firefighters that work in the field can become overly stressed, perform repetitive and stressful movements in inappropriate positions, and overwork their muscles when using maximum strength at fire scenes or rescue scenes. In addition, they wear heavy personal protective gear and work in narrow, dangerous spaces that impose physical stress on their shoulders, lower back, and knees. Such a poor working environment increases the possibility of musculoskeletal symptoms [38], and psychological stress can have a combined affect on the occurrence of musculoskeletal symptoms [36,37]. The musculoskeletal symptoms caused by mental and physical stress can directly affect sleep quality through pain [6], but chronic musculoskeletal symptoms, as mentioned above, can increase depression symptoms [27] and indirectly affect sleep quality simultaneously.
Although not significantly related to sleep in the multivariate logistic regression analysis, age, alcohol intake, and occupational stress were found to be significantly related to sleep disorder in the univariate analysis. Age is a known risk factor of sleep disorders and preceding studies have reported that sleep disorders increase with age [39,40]. However, our results indicate that poor sleep tends to decrease with age. One explanation could be that those with longer years of service and higher positions have smaller workloads and a heightened ability to cope with stress as they age and experience less physical and mental stress. We found that the mean Psychosocial Well-Being Index score decreased with age when the score was stratified by age. Alcohol intake has been found to decrease REM sleep time and negatively influence total sleeping time [41]. However, a study in Japan reported that alcohol intake induces sleep [42]. Our study did not show a significant relativity between alcohol intake and sleep quality, but we did not classify alcohol intake into different levels of the exposure. Future studies should stratify alcohol intake across different levels to analyze the relativity between alcohol intake and sleeping more accurately. Several preceding studies have reported that occupational stress directly and indirectly influences sleep [42-44]. In our univariate analysis, we identified that all subscales of occupational stress, except for interpersonal conflict and the total score of occupational stress, had significant relativity with sleep. However, the multivariate logistic regression analysis did not reveal a significant relativity between the total score of occupational stress and sleep quality. Depression tends to be strongly correlated with occupational stress and may have confounded and/or weakened our analysis of the relativity between total job stress and sleep quality.
There were three main limitations of our study. First, our study was cross-sectional; therefore, the causality between sleep quality and its related factors cannot be confirmed. A future prospective study is needed to provide supplementary data. Second, other factors that may influence sleep quality, such as past medical history, noise in the living environment, and other living conditions were not comprehensively collected for data analysis. In addition, our subjects included a limited population of male firefighters; thus, our findings cannot be generalized to female firefighters or all firefighters. Finally, we used self-administered questionnaires that reflect the subjective judgment of our subjects and are prone to bias. Nevertheless, this study analyzed factors that affect sleep quality among firefighters in terms of their socio-demographic, occupational, psychosocial, and occupational stress factors. In addition, we used the PSQI, Psychosocial Well-Being Index Short Form, BDI-2, and Korean Occupational Stress Scale Short Form all of which are reliable and valid measures used to study sleep quality.
Conclusion
In conclusion, firefighters may be exposed to a greater risk of sleep disorders than other groups of people. Moreover, sleep quality among firefighters is affected by various factors including physical, mental, occupational, and bio-environmental factors. These health problems affect not only their personal life but also society. Personal health problems can deteriorate their satisfaction and immersion in the workplace and create difficulties in the field. Therefore, greater attention should be paid to health problems and sleep disorders, which also affect health. To improve sleep quality among firefighters, their working environment and health conditions should be studied carefully. By doing so, effort can be made to improve poor working environments, analyze and assess the results of health diagnosis, and understand their relationship with the working environment and health problems to reduce the physical and psychological stress among firefighters. In addition, an integrated health control program that considers their physical and mental/psychological health should be developed in addition to a regular health control system for each risk factor. These measures should be applied to provide active health management for individual firefighters who suffer from sleep disorders.
Competing interest
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors’ contribution
DKL was responsible for data analysis, and for drafted this manuscript. MYL was responsible for the content of the manuscript, for study design, for data analysis, and for drafted this manuscript; KOB was responsible for the data collection; ISC was responsible for the data analysis and interpretation. All authors contributed to the drafting and revisions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Factors Related to Sleep Disorders among Male Firefighters
| Variables | n | % |
|---|---|---|
| Age (years) | | |
| ≤29 | 79 | 12.0 |
| 30 ~ 39 | 221 | 33.6 |
| 40 ~ 49 | 261 | 39.7 |
| ≥50 | 96 | 14.6 |
| Tenure (years) | | |
| <10 | 280 | 42.6 |
| 10 ~ 19 | 226 | 34.4 |
| ≥20 | 151 | 23.0 |
| Marital status | | |
| Unmarried | 135 | 20.5 |
| Married | 522 | 79.5 |
| Exercise | | |
| No | 332 | 50.5 |
| Yes | 325 | 49.5 |
| Alcohol intake | | |
| No | 264 | 40.2 |
| Yes | 393 | 59.8 |
| Smoking | | |
| No | 517 | 78.7 |
| Yes | 140 | 21.3 |
| BMI* (kg/m2) | | |
| <25 | 420 | 63.9 |
| ≥25 | 237 | 36.1 |
| Department | | |
| Administrative job | 158 | 24.0 |
| Non-Administrative job | 499 | 76.0 |
| Musculoskeletal symptoms | | |
| No | 416 | 63.3 |
| Yes | 241s | 36.7 |
| Shift work | | |
| No | 143 | 21.8 |
| Yes | 514 | 78.2 |
| Sleep quality | | |
| Good | 337 | 51.3 |
| Poor | 320 | 48.7 |
| BDI-2† | | |
| Normal range | 536 | 81.6 |
| Abnormal range | 121 | 18.4 |
| PWI-SF‡ | | |
| Healthy group | 68 | 10.4 |
| Latent stress group | 482 | 73.4 |
| Stress group | 107 | 16.2 |
| Categories in the KOSS | Firefighter | Reference* |
|---|---|---|
| (Q25-Q75)† | ||
| Job demand | 43.5 (15.1) | 50.1 (41.7-58.4) |
| Insufficient job control | 48.6 (12.0) | 50.1 (41.7-66.7) |
| Interpersonal conflict | 35.8 (10.9) | 33.4 (33.3-44.5) |
| Job insecurity | 30.1 (16.7) | 50.1 (33.4-66.7) |
| Organizational system | 43.2 (12.8) | 50.1 (41.7-66.7) |
| Lack of rewards | 41.0 (12.5) | 55.6 (33.4-66.7) |
| Occupational climate | 36.7 (14.6) | 41.7 (33.4-50.1) |
| Total | 39.9 (8.8) | 48.5 (42.5-54.8) |
| | Sleep quality | | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Variables | Good | Poor | p-value* |
| n (%) | n (%) | ||
| Age (years) | | | |
| ≤29 | 38 (48.1) | 41 (51.9) | 0.003 |
| 30 ~ 39 | 96 (43.4) | 125 (56.6) | |
| 40 ~ 49 | 143 (54.8) | 118 (45.2) | |
| ≥50 | 60 (62.5) | 36 (37.5) | |
| Tenure (years) | | | |
| <10 | 133 (47.5) | 147 (52.5) | 0.007 |
| 10 ~ 19 | 110 (48.7) | 116 (51.3) | |
| ≥20 | 94 (62.3) | 57 (37.7) | |
| Marital status | | | |
| Unmarried | 66 (48.9) | 69 (51.1) | 0.531 |
| Married | 271 (51.9) | 251 (48.1) | |
| Exercise | | | |
| No | 168 (50.6) | 164 (51.3) | 0.720 |
| Yes | 169 (52.0) | 156 (48.0) | |
| Alcohol intake | | | |
| No | 148 (56.1) | 116 (43.9) | 0.045 |
| Yes | 189 (48.1) | 204 (51.9) | |
| Smoking | | | |
| No | 275 (53.2) | 242 (46.8) | 0.061 |
| Yes | 62 (44.3) | 78 (55.7) | |
| BMI (kg/m2)† | | | |
| <25 | 217 (51.7) | 203 (48.3) | 0.799 |
| ≥25 | 120 (50.6) | 117 (49.4) | |
| Department | | | |
| Administrative job | 97 (61.4) | 61 (38.6) | 0.004 |
| Non-Administrative job | 240 (48.1) | 259 (51.9) | |
| Musculoskeletal symptoms | | | |
| No | 259 (62.3) | 157 (37.7) | <0.001 |
| Yes | 78 (32.4) | 163 (67.6) | |
| Shift work | | | |
| No | 88 (61.5) | 55 (38.5) | 0.006 |
| Yes | 249 (48.4) | 265 (51.6) | |
| BDI-2‡ | | | |
| Normal range | 319 (59.5) | 217 (40.5) | <0.001 |
| Abnormal range | 18 (14.9) | 103 (85.1) | |
| PWI-SF§ | | | |
| Healthy group | 58 (85.3) | 10 (14.7) | <0.001 |
| Latent stress group | 262 (15.9) | 220 (45.6) | |
| Stress group | 17 (15.9) | 90 (84.1) | |
| | Sleep quality | | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Categories in the KOSS | Good | Poor | p-value* |
| n (%) | n (%) | ||
| Job demand | | | |
| Low | 280 (54.9) | 230 (45.1) | 0.001 |
| High | 57 (38.8) | 90 (61.2) | |
| Insufficient job control | | | |
| Low | 240 (56.2) | 187 (43.8) | 0.001 |
| High | 97 (42.2) | 133 (57.8) | |
| Interpersonal conflict | | | |
| Low | 274 (52.4) | 249 (47.6) | 0.267 |
| High | 63 (47.0) | 71 (53.0) | |
| Job insecurity | | | |
| Low | 327 (52.2) | 299 (47.8) | 0.030 |
| High | 10 (32.3) | 21 (67.7) | |
| Organizational system | | | |
| Low | 288 (55.3) | 233 (44.7) | <0.001 |
| High | 49 (36.0) | 87 (66.2) | |
| Lack of reward | | | |
| Low | 224 (59.3) | 154 (40.7) | <0.001 |
| High | 113 (40.5) | 166 (59.5) | |
| Occupational climates | | | |
| Low | 231(60.8) | 149(39.2) | <0.001 |
| High | 106 (38.3) | 171(61.7) | |
| Total | | | |
| Low | 307 (54.6) | 255 (45.4) | <0.001 |
| High | 30 (31.6) | 65 (68.4) | |
| | | OR§ (95% CIǁ) | | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variables | Model I* | Model II† | Model III‡ | |||
| Age (years) | | | | | | |
| ≤29 | 1.00 | | 1.00 | | 1.00 | |
| 30 ~ 39 | 1.38 | (0.82-2.34) | 1.32 | (0.77-2.29) | 1.15 | (0.63-2.01) |
| 40 ~ 49 | 0.86 | (0.52-1.44) | 0.91 | (0.53-1.55) | 0.71 | (0.41-1.24) |
| ≥50 | 0.74 | (0.39-1.40) | 0.76 | (0.40-1.47) | 0.57 | (0.28-1.14) |
| Alcohol intake | | | | | | |
| No | 1.00 | | 1.00 | | 1.00 | |
| Yes | 1.37 | (0.99-1.87) | 1.41 | (1.01-1.97) | 1.34 | (0.94-1.92) |
| Shift work | | | | | | |
| No | 1.00 | | 1.00 | | 1.00 | |
| Yes | 1.66 | (1.12-2.47) | 1.63 | (1.08-2.46) | 1.58 | (1.02-2.45) |
| Musculoskeletal symptoms | | | | | | |
| No | | | 1.00 | | 1.00 | |
| Yes | | | 3.37 | (2.40-4.74) | 2.89 | (2.02-4.14) |
| BDI-2¶ | | | | | | |
| Normal range | | | | | 1.00 | |
| Abnormal range | | | | | 7.04 | (4.03-12.30) |
| Total job stress** | | | | | | |
| Low | | | | | 1.00 | |
| High | 0.93 | (0.93-2.72) | ||||
Table 1 General and psychosocial characteristics of the study population (n = 657)
*Body mass index.
†Beck Depression Inventory-II.
‡Psychosocial Well-Being Index-Short Form.
Table 2 Mean (standard deviation) scores from the Korean Occupational Stress Scale (KOSS)
*National Study for Development and Standardization of Occupational Stress
†Quartiles.
Table 3 Correlation of sleep quality with general and psychosocial factors
*Calculated using theχ2-test and linear-by-linear association.
‡Beck Depression Inventory-II.
†Body mass index.
§Psychosocial Well-Being Index-Short Form.
Table 4 Correlation between Korean Occupational Stress Scale (KOSS) score and sleep quality
*Calculated using theχ2-test.
Table 5 Logistic regression analysis of factors related to sleep quality
*Model I was adjusted for age, alcohol intake, and shift work. †Model II was adjusted for model I and musculoskeletal symptoms.
‡Model III was adjusted for model II, depression, and total job stress. §Odds ratio ǁconfidential interval ¶Beck Depression Inventory-II.
**Sum of categories score/7.
