Olawale O Ogunsemi, Taiwo O Afe, Hesham Almohandes
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Sagamu, Ogun State, Nigeria.
Najran Psychiatric Hospital, Najran, Saudi Arabia.
Indian J Psychiatry. 2017 Jul-Sep;59(3):347-351. doi: 10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_241_16.
Health care involves taking care of other peoples' lives. Professionals in the field of health care are expected to be at their best all the time because mistakes or errors could be costly and sometimes irreversible.
This study assessed the quality of sleep and well-being of health workers in Najran city, Saudi Arabia.
It was a cross-sectional study done among health workers from different hospitals within the kingdom of Najran, Saudi Arabia. The subjects were administered questionnaire that contained sections on demographic and clinical characteristics, sleep quality, and section relating to well-being.
One hundred and twenty-three health workers comprising 29 (23.6%) males and 94 (76.4%) females participated in this study. The majority of the workers 74 (60.2%) were nurses; a quarter were doctors while the remaining 13.6% accounted for other categories of health workers such as the pharmacist and laboratory technicians. Fifty-two (42.3%) of the workers were poor sleepers. Significantly (χ = 23.98, = 0.000), majority of the subjects that were poor sleepers (84.6%) compared with the 42.3% of the good sleepers rated the last 12 months of their profession as a bit stressful or quite a bit stressful. Similarly, 46.2% of the workers that were poor sleepers significantly (χ = 24.69, = 0.000) rated their ability to handle unexpected and difficult problems in their life as fair or poor compared with 14.1% of the good sleepers.
Health workers expressed some level of stress in their professional life, and a good proportion of the subjects were poor sleepers. There is, therefore, the need to establish a program within the health-care organization to address social, physical, and psychological well-being at work.
医疗保健涉及照顾他人的生命。医疗保健领域的专业人员需要始终保持最佳状态，因为错误可能代价高昂，有时甚至不可逆转。
本研究评估了沙特阿拉伯奈季兰市医护人员的睡眠质量和幸福感。
这是一项横断面研究，研究对象为沙特阿拉伯奈季兰市不同医院的医护人员。研究对象接受了包含人口统计学和临床特征、睡眠质量以及幸福感相关内容的问卷调查。
123名医护人员参与了本研究，其中男性29名（23.6%），女性94名（76.4%）。大多数工作人员74名（60.2%）是护士；四分之一是医生，其余13.6%为其他类别的医护人员，如药剂师和实验室技术员。52名（42.3%）工作人员睡眠质量差。与42.3%睡眠良好的人员相比，睡眠质量差的人员中大多数（84.6%）认为其过去12个月的工作压力有点大或非常大，差异有统计学意义（χ = 23.98， = 0.000）。同样，与14.1%睡眠良好的人员相比，46.2%睡眠质量差的人员认为其应对生活中意外和难题的能力一般或较差，差异有统计学意义（χ = 24.69， = 0.000）。
医护人员在职业生涯中表现出一定程度的压力，且相当一部分研究对象睡眠质量差。因此，有必要在医疗保健机构内制定一个项目，以解决工作中的社会、身体和心理健康问题。
