Sleep Duration and Quality among Different Occupations--China National Study

Wenjie Sun, Yaqin Yu, Jingqin Yuan, Changwei Li, Tingting Liu, Dongdong Lin, Abby Lau, Chongke Zhong, Tan Xu and GuangLiang Shan

PLOS ONE, 2015, vol. 10, issue 3, 1-8

Abstract: Objective: To examine the associations between occupation, sleep duration and sleep quality. Methods: The data for this study was extracted from data collected from the 2008 Chinese Sub-optimal Health Study. Our study sample consisted of 18,316 Chinese subjects aged 18-65. Occupation and other relevant characteristics to sleep were collected. We used the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) to measure sleep quality and multiple logistic regression models to examine the association of occupation with shortened sleep duration and poor sleep quality. Results: Farmers had the longest sleep duration (mean=8.22 hours) while the civil servants had the shortest sleep duration (mean=7.85 hours). Farmers also had the best sleep quality (mean score=3.74) while professional workers had the worst sleep quality (mean score=4.87). Compared to civil servants, the OR of shortened sleep duration and poor sleep quality for blue collar workers is 1.39 (95%CI: 1.11-1.73) and 1.28 (95%-CI: 1.15-1.42), respectively, after adjusting for age, sex, marital status, education, area, smoking, drinking, pain, and health status. Conclusion: sleep duration and quality varied among different Chinese occupation populations. The blue collar workers are more likely to have shortened sleep duration and poor sleep quality.

Date: 2015
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