Factors Influencing Sleep Quality of Outage Maintenance Shift Workers

Abstract

This research aimed to study the factors influencing sleep quality of shift work among outage maintenance technicians in a state enterprise. The research was a cross-sectional descriptive study collecting data from 210 outage maintenance technicians by questionnaires; and the statistics analysis included descriptive statistics, chi-square and Person’s product moment correlation coefficient. The study found that most of outage maintenance technicians were men with the average age of 31.68±8.27 years old. The average shift work experience was 4.48±3.06 years. The shift work type was two days rotation 60%; morning-morning-afternoon-afternoon-night-night-break-break. It was revealed that 53.8% of them had good sleep quality, 46.2% poor sleep quality, 70.8% had no sleepless problem, 26.2% mild sleepless, 2.6% medium sleepless, 0.5% severe sleepless, 43.1% normal sleepy, 42.6% mild sleepy, 11.7% medium sleepy and 2.5% very sleepy. Moreover, the research revealed that the working experience was significantly negatively associated with sleep quality (p<0.05). Shift experience was significantly positively associated with insomnia (p<0.05). In addition, the ype of shift-work was significantly related to sleep quality (p<0.05). Therefore, the results could lead to monitoring program how shift-work affects the health and guiding the development of suitable project to address the issue.