Sleep quality among teachers of an educational institution during the COVID-19 health emergency, Peru, 2021.

Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic affected the quality of life of the population worldwide. The countries took several protective measures to avoid contagion, including social isolation, teleworking and distance education. As schools closed, teachers took over primarily online teaching. The study main objective was to determine the sleep quality among teachers of a public educational institution in the district of Mancora, Peru, during the COVID-19 pandemic social isolation. Material(s) and Method(s): An observational, cross-sectional and prospective study. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index was used to assess 59 preschool, primary and secondary school teachers who taught through distance education from March to December 2021. Result(s): The average age was 44.3 +/- 8.89 years. Women accounted for 64.4 %, specialist teachers-i.e., those who have expertise in a particular field-55.9 %, secondary school teachers 55.9 %, primary school teachers 30.5 % and preschool teachers 13.6 %. The affected sleep quality parameters were the following: 69.5 % had poor sleep quality, 67.8 % inadequate sleep latency, 61 % sleep duration of less than five hours, 27.1 % habitual sleep efficiency of less than 65 % and 49.2 % sleep disturbances. Moreover, 50.8 % reported using a sleeping medication more than once a week and 39 % severe daytime dysfunction. There was an association between sleep quality and the components subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, habitual sleep efficiency and daytime dysfunction. Nonetheless, there was no association with sex, educational level and teaching specialty. Conclusion(s): Teachers of an educational institution in Mancora had a high prevalence of poor sleep quality and the most affected components were sleep latency, daytime dysfunction and sleep disturbances.Copyright © La revista. Publicado por la Universidad de San Martin de Porres, Peru.

Assessment of the Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure instrument modified from the peruvian version during COVID-19 pandemic

Introduction: To validate a modification of the Peruvian version of the Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure (DREEM) instrument to assess the distance learning environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Instrumental, analytical, cross-sectional, prospective study. A 50-item Google Forms questionnaire was applied to 527 medical students with modifications in the domain of perception of teaching (02) and perception of the atmosphere of the educational environment (03). The sampling was non-probabilistic and by convenience. Results: The average age of the students was 20.4 (±2.74) years. 63% were women, 88% used a personal computer and 62.6% described the quality of their Internet connection as regular. The adequacy of the sample was pertinent (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin sampling coefficient 0.96 and Bartlett's sphericity test with Chi-square 13,976.1;p < 0.05 and df 1,225). The extraction of factors through the analysis of the main components and Varimax rotation, yielded 10 primary factors that explain the accumulated 62.54% of the total variance. The reliability analysis had Cronbach's alpha of 0.95. This result is considered to be very adequate. The students rated the remote educational environment "with many problems", the mean global score was 87.7 (±1.18), with a confidence interval of 95% (85.4 - 89.9), range 134 between 24 and 158 points. Conclusion: The proposal to modify the DREEM instrument of the Peruvian version to assess the remote or distance educational environment in medical education is adequate during the COVID-19 pandemic. © 2023