Occupational Stress and Sleep Among Teachers: What is The Effective-Ness of A Programme to Reduce Occupational Stress Using Mindfulness?

In Portugal, teachers are subjected to numerous sources of pressure, which leads us to be a country with very high levels of occupational stress in this professional group. Occupational stress influences many aspects of the individual’s life, both personally and professionally, and mindfulness programmes have proved to be highly effective in reducing these symptoms, both personally and in the teaching profession, since there are studies that point to an improvement in the student-teacher relationship, with subsequent positive changes in the student’s academic performance. To bring some innovation to the programme to be applied in this study, physiological sleep measurement was added to the Stress and Mindfulness programmes, as this variable is related to stress, insofar as it is assumed that the higher the levels of stress, the lower the quality of sleep.