Avaliação da qualidade do sono e composição corporal de profissionais de enfermagem

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Scientific evidence has shown that nursing professionals have sleeping quality jeopardized; however, no correlation has been established with body composition. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the relation between body compositions and sleeping quality in nursing professionals. METODOLOGY: Transversal, quantitative, descriptive and analytical study. Nursing workers from HC-UFU were randomly selected to participate of this study. Interviews were done with validated surveys to evaluate sleeping quality and stress level of the worker, and a bioimpedance exam was done with a tetrapolar device. RESULTS: Two hundred forty three professionals of the nursing team participated in the survey, mostly females (n=205; 84.4%), nursing technicians (53.1%). Average abdominal circumference was 91.97±13.83 cm, body fat was 31.66±8.24%) or 24.07±11.50 kg. The body mass index (BMI) was 27.09±4.63. Most participants evaluated sleep quality as bad (n=99; 40.7%) and “Sleep Latency” between 31 and 60 minutes (n=74; 30.5%) in the dominion “Subjective Sleep Quality”. Correlations were observed between: percentage of body water X Sleep Duration Dominion (r=-0.135; p<0.05); water resistance in the body X Dominion Costumary Sleep Efficacy (r=0.149; p<0.05); percentage of body fat X “Disfunction During the Day” (r=0.233; p<0.01); fat mass (kg) and fat percentages X “Sleep disturbance”(r=0.148; r=0.177; r=0.182; p<0.01) respectively; BMI X “Sleep Disturbance”, (r=0.146; p<0.05) as well as percentage of lean mass and body water X “Sleep Disturbance” (r=-0.244; r=0.247; p<0.01). CONCLUSION: This is the first study comparing sleep quality with body composition data in a nursing team. It became clear that more studies should be done to obtain greater knowledge about heath profile of nursing teams and, therefore, establish better plans and solutions for the group studied.