Association between Workplace Risk Factor Exposure and Sleep Disturbance: Analysis of the 2nd Korean Working Conditions Survey.
OBJECTIVE
Sleep is essential for human beings to live and work properly. This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between occupational exposures to workplace risk factors and sleep disturbance in Korean workers.


METHODS
The data were drawn from the second Korean Working Conditions Survey (KWCS); a total of 7,112 paid workers were analyzed. The independent variables were occupational exposures such as physical, chemical, biological, and psychosocial risk factor in the workplace, and psychosocial risk factor was divided into five categories (job demand, job control, social support, job insecurity, lack of reward). We estimated the relationship between various occupational exposures and sleep disturbance using multivariate logistic regression analysis.


RESULTS
The results showed that people who exposed to physical, chemical, biological, and psychosocial (high job demand, inadequate social support, lack of reward) risk factors were more likely to increase the risk of sleep disturbance. Furthermore, after adjusting for general and occupational characteristics, we found significant positive associations between exposures to physical (odds ratios [OR] 1.47, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.05-2.07) and psychosocial (high job demand (OR 2.93, 95% CI 2.16-3.98), inadequate social support (OR 1.57, 95% CI 1.14-2.15), lack of reward (OR 1.45, 95% CI 1.08-1.96)) risk factors and sleep disturbance.


CONCLUSIONS
These results suggest that occupational exposures to physical and psychosocial workplace risk factors are significantly related to sleep disturbance.
Yong-Seok
YS
Heo
Sei-Jin
SJ
Chang
Shin-Goo
SG
Park
Jong-Han
JH
Leem
Sung-Hwan
SH
Jeon
Bum-Joon
BJ
Lee
Kyung-Yong
KY
Rhee
Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Inha University Hospital, Incheon, South Korea. carpediem@inha.ac.kr.
Hwan-Cheol
HC
Kim