Relationships between insomnia, long working hours, and long commuting time among public school teachers in Japan: a nationwide cross-sectional diary study

Hori, Daisuke; Sasahara, Shinichiro; Oi, Yuichi; Doki, Shotaro; Andrea, Christina-Sylvia; Takahashi, Tsukasa; Shiraki, Nagisa; Ikeda, Takuma; Ikeda, Yu; Kambayashi, Toshiyuki; Aoki, Eiichi; Matsuzaki, Ichiyo

doi:10.1016/j.sleep.2019.09.017

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“…Even the number of hours of sleep that fall between 7-9 hours is within the normal range of adequate sleep for adults. However, insomnia is prevalent among public school teachers (in Japan) (Hori et al, 2020). This means that public school teachers here in the Philippines still enjoy a good night's sleep.…”

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“…Another study showed that overcommitted teachers have a positive indirect relationship to sleeping problems (Huyghebaert, 2018). A related study from Japan also exposed that public elementary/ junior high school teachers' insomnia relates to long working hours commuting time and urbanicity of the school (Hori et al, 2020). From an experiment done by a group about teachers' sleep quality, they divulged that teachers with restrained working time sleep quality are more frequent than unrestrained working time sleep quality (Kottwitz et al, 2018).…”

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Teachers’ Sleep, Religious Tasks, and Suicidal Thoughts: A Preliminary Assessment

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Jimenez²

2021

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Because of the unexpected and debilitating effect of the current pandemic, the impact of the pandemic on teachers is detrimental. This paper investigated the public-school teachers' sleep, religious tasks, and suicidal thoughts. The study used a descriptive correlational design with the online survey as the primary data gathering tool. 198 public school teachers from a school's division in Central Luzon, Philippines participated in the online survey. The researchers created the online instrument with validation done by experts. After the data gathering, the study used the following statistical tools to calculate the frequency count, percentage, rank, t-test, and Analysis of Variance with the help of SPSS 22. Results show that teachers go to sleep between 10:00-11:00 PM and wake up between 5:00-6:00 AM. This comprises 7-9 hours of sleep. Teachers also go to church or other religious meetings once a week and also, they pray, meditate, or study the Bible more than once a week. Also, most of the responses of teachers in the suicidal thoughts were either "no" or "never". Furthermore, the study also found significant differences in the teachers' sleep, religious tasks, and suicidal thoughts when grouped according to their profile. The study concluded that teachers have established sleep and religious tasks routines. On the other hand, suicidal thoughts are out of the options for the teachers’ business.

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Teachers’ Sleep, Religious Tasks, and Suicidal Thoughts: A Preliminary Assessment

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Jimenez²

2021

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“…This is because long working hours are associated with insomnia [35,36]. Working long hours reduces the amount of time to sleep [37]. Furthermore, people need more time to recuperate from long working hours [38,39].…”

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Irregular Work Hours and the Risk of Sleep Disturbance Among Korean Service Workers Required to Suppress Emotion

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Kim

Lee

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Although a necessity in a modern society, irregular work schedule can lead to sleep problems. We investigated the effect of work schedule irregularity on sleep disturbance of 17,846 Korean service workers using the fifth Korean Working Conditions Survey. The odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) for sleep disturbance occurrence were calculated through a multiple logistic regression model. The adjusted ORs for moderate and severe sleep disturbances for those with irregular work hours were 2.11 (95% CI 1.90–2.33) and 3.10 (95% CI 2.62–3.66), respectively. Work schedule irregularity and emotion suppression at work showed synergistic effect on both moderate and severe sleep disturbances. Sleep disturbances can lead to brain function deterioration and work-related injuries; therefore, appropriate measures should be addressed for the vulnerable population.

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“…The second hypothesis is that the working environment of schools varies by prefecture. Hori et al (2019) reported that 41.7% of the male and 44.0% of the female Japanese schoolteachers were diagnosed with insomnia because they spent a considerable amount of time preparing for lectures.…”

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2021

Int. J. Res. Rev. Educ.

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At present, in Japan, the mass retirement of schoolteachers in most public schools requires mass recruitment, with the recent trend that the "competition rate" given by the ratio between the number of applicants and the number of employed schoolteachers has been declining. As a result, ensuring the quality of teachers in Japanese public schools is becoming difficult. We investigated the schoolteacher recruiting system (SRS) in Japan to find regional characteristics related to the numbers of students and schoolteachers in elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as the numbers of applicants and people accepted for the schoolteacher recruiting examination (SRE). Applying a cluster analysis technique, we classified 47 prefectures in Japan into four groups. Then, we applied a multivariate regression modeling approach to explain the number of applicants and the competition rate for those prefectures in each group using various economic and social variables. We aimed to improve the SRS in Japan by deriving facts through various mathematical modeling approaches. We believe it is necessary to increase the number of applicants for the SRE, with the goal of improving the SRS.

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Relationships between insomnia, long working hours, and long commuting time among public school teachers in Japan: a nationwide cross-sectional diary study

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Teachers’ Sleep, Religious Tasks, and Suicidal Thoughts: A Preliminary Assessment

Teachers’ Sleep, Religious Tasks, and Suicidal Thoughts: A Preliminary Assessment

Irregular Work Hours and the Risk of Sleep Disturbance Among Korean Service Workers Required to Suppress Emotion

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