Introduction: The relationship between sleep and quality of life is one of the issues of great importance in the field of working conditions of officials and medical personnel of hospital services delivery units. Studies have shown a relationship between sleep quality and quality of life and lack of sleep has been associated with errors in procedures and occupational injuries. Objective: Relate sleep quality with the quality of life in health personnel of an institution of IV level in Caracas (Venezuela). Materials and methods: Cross-sectional study with secondary data from health personnel of a hospital IV level (93 entries) in the city of Caracas (Venezuela). sociodemographic variables were used, those related to sleep quality and from the survey Quality Index Pittsburgh Sleep quality of life and included in the SF-36 questionnaire. SPSS statistical software was used for analysis and measures of central tendency and dispersion were obtained. To relate the variables Shapiro Wilk test and Spearman correlation coefficient were used. results: The total of the other workers who entered the study ranged in age between 19 and 70 years and a standard deviation of 10. 9 years. Regarding gender, 79. 6% (n = 74) they were women, and 20. 4% (n = 19) were men. With regard to component quality of life, it was found that the higher score is associated with emotional performance (61. 3%), Vitality (73. 5%), physical function (91%), physical pain (100 %) and the Social Function (100%). Similarly, it was found that all the workers surveyed reported being poor sleepers (91. 4%). By correlating the quality of sleep with the quality of life, a statistically significant association, specifically the Latency component of sleep (p = 0. 008), habitual sleep efficiency (p = 0. 001), sleep disturbances (p = 0. 040) was found and daytime dysfunction (p = 0. 008). conclusionThis study reported that poor sleep is related to the quality of life of health personnel and all workers in this study reported being poor sleepers, facts that demand the attention of health programs companies to promote preventive and corrective respect to working conditions as part of the welfare of persons.
