A Study on the Sleep Itisorder of a Part of Manufacturing Plant Workers / 대한산업의학회지

ABSTRACT

This study was conducted to investigate sleep qualifies of manufacturing workers. The data were collected from the 479 manufacturing factory workers who were most 3 shift workers. The results obtained were as follows. The prevalence rate of sleep disorder was 32.8%, rate of difficulty in initiating sleep was 11.9%, that of difficulty in maintaining sleep was 6.1%, and that of early morning awakening was 6.9%. DisoTdeTs of difficulty in maintaining sleep was low in the age group of twenties and high in thirties. The gloup of sedative or alcohol use before sleep induction shewed high Prevalence Tate of sleep disorder. The group of satisfying for job or family had the lower rate of sleep disorder than the unsatisfying group. The rate of sleep disorder were low in the group of day sleeping, no physical pain. The variables such as day sleep, physical pain and job tenure showed statistical significance in the logistic regression of sleep disorder.