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