Abstract
Aim: The objective was to analyze burnout syndrome, anxiety, depression and sleep quality in teaching and research staff in the university setting and its impact on temporomandibular dysfunction (TMD), and to analyze the psycho-emotional variables that could explain the possibility of someone suffering from TMD. Methods: A transversal study was carried out with a sample consisting of 173 participants belonging to university teaching and research staff. The correlation between variables was performed using the Pearson’s correlation coefficient. Through a linear regression, an estimate of the degree of contribution was calculated that each independent variable (burnout syndrome, anxiety, depression and sleep quality) has on the dependent variable (TMD). Results: the scores are higher in the group non-tenured staff compared to tenured staff in relation to psycho-emotional variables and TMD and how psycho-emotional variables can influence the presence or absence of temporomandibular dysfunction based on job stability, this value being higher in the group of non-tenured staff (77.8%) compared to the tenured staff (44.2%). Conclusions: The non-tenured university teaching staff demonstrate higher levels of depression, anxiety, emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and poorer sleep quality. Furthermore, these variables show a higher incidence in the probability that university teaching and/or research personnel suffer from TMD.
Highlights
Those workers who are systematically exposed to the management of people or services tend to report a higher incidence of psychological disorders that can degenerate into emotional fatigue and work exhaustion [1,2]
There are many documents that relate stress to temporomandibular dysfunction, but no document analyzes the correlation between the risk factors of suffering from temporomandibular disorders (TMD) in people who suffer from anxiety, depression, burnout syndrome, and poor sleep quality
The objective of this study was to analyze some of the main psychological disorders that affect university teaching staff, such as state of anxiety, burnout syndrome, depression, and sleep quality and how these psycho-emotional variables may be the cause of university teaching staff suffering from TMD
Summary
Those workers who are systematically exposed to the management of people or services tend to report a higher incidence of psychological disorders that can degenerate into emotional fatigue and work exhaustion [1,2]. There are many documents that relate stress to temporomandibular dysfunction, but no document analyzes the correlation between the risk factors of suffering from TMD in people who suffer from anxiety, depression, burnout syndrome, and poor sleep quality. For this reason, the objective of this study was to analyze some of the main psychological disorders that affect university teaching staff, such as state of anxiety, burnout syndrome, depression, and sleep quality and how these psycho-emotional variables may be the cause of university teaching staff suffering from TMD. The starting hypothesis will be that university teaching staff with contractual stability will be less prone to suffer from temporomandibular alterations as a consequence of the interaction of psychological aspects and quality of sleep compared to staff with no contractual stability
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