Occupational stress and Sleep quality among Nightshift Information Technology workers in Bengaluru: A Cross-Sectional Study

The study aims to determine the prevalence of occupational stress, level of sleep quality and the association of occupational stress and sleep quality among nightshift information technology workers in Bengaluru. It is a cross sectional study. Night shift information technology workers aged 21 - 60yrs who were present at the time of conducting the data collection period. The data collection period will be from March 2025- April 2025. Questionnaires include  occupational stress index(OSI) for assessing occupational stress and Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index(PSQI) for assessing the sleep quality . he questionnaires which were not completed will be rejected. Data entry will be done on Microsoft Excel which will be collected through Epicollect5 and for analysis it will be exported to Jamovi 2.3.28. Data will be expressed in frequency percentage. Chi square test will be used to find the association between occupational stress and sleep quality. P <0.05 will be considered statistically significant. The assessed results will be helpful for future studies too.