Author:

• Fabrícia Bezerra de Castro Alves Silveira - Silveira, F. B. de C. A. - <fabricia-alves@uol.com.br>

Co-author(s):

• José Claudio Garcia Lira Neto - Neto, J. C. G. L. - <jclira@live.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2777-1406
• Carleara Weiss - Weiss, C. - <carleara@buffalo.edu>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4421-0985
• Márcio Flávio Moura de Araújo - de Araújo, M. F. M. - <oicam29@gmail.com, marcio.moura@fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8832-8323

Abstract:

Community and workplace violence against health professionals has caused feelings of vulnerability, emotional exhaustion and psychological changes, reflecting on disturbances in sleep quality. Thus, we aimed to analyze the association between community and workplace violence and the quality of sleep of health professionals working in primary health care. The study was conducted with 286 health professionals who worked in primary health care, in one of the largest cities in Brazil. The primary outcome was the sleep quality, as assessed by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. Most of the participants (69.2% / p = 0.074) were classified as “bad sleepers”, with nurses (73.3% / p = 0.049) being those who presented the worst quality of sleep. Also, most professionals suffered some type of violence at work (p

Keywords:

Workplace Violence; Sleep; Health Personnel; Primary Health Care.

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