The Relationship between Occupation, Sleep Disorders, and Health Impacts: an Analysis Based on Maximum Spanning Tree

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The health challenges of sleep quality disorders are notable, especially in certain occupational groups and their interactions with the professional job environment. The adversities in such a professional atmosphere can compromise the excellence of activities, the quality of life, and, consequently, physical and mental health. The present study proposes an analysis model to investigate the relationship between health and job occupation in developing sleep disorders. The objective is to identify the professional groups most susceptible to these problems, thus highlighting the predominant characteristics in the manifestation of such disorders. In this context, based on Kruskal's algorithm, we adopt the maximum spanning tree strategy to investigate the sleep quality datasets available on the Kaggle platform. The results show a broad relationship between hereditary conditions, such as high blood pressure, with the professional occupation and several sleep quality disorders, such as insomnia and apnea. With these results, we hope to amplify the discussions and evidence that certain occupational groups, due to high levels of occupational stress, tend to suffer considerable influence on indicators such as increased blood pressure and sleep quality disorders, having relevant impacts on the lives of these individuals.