1. Influence of shift work on rest-activity rhythms, sleep quality, and fatigue of female nurses
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Wen-Pei Chang and Hau-Bin Li
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Sleep Quality ,Physiology ,Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders ,Work Schedule Tolerance ,Physiology (medical) ,Humans ,Nurses ,Shift Work Schedule ,Female ,Sleep ,Fatigue ,Circadian Rhythm - Abstract
Female nurses working rotating shifts must change their daily routines often, which affects their biological circadian rhythms and could cause sleep disorders and fatigue. The objective of this study was to compare the sleep-wake rhythms, sleep quality, and fatigue of female nurses working rotating shifts and fixed day shifts and to analyze the factors that influence their fatigue. Participants comprised a shift worker group of 101 nurses and a day worker group of 76 nurses. Following the collection of basic information of the nurses and their scores in the various constructs of the Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and the Checklist Individual Strength (CIS) questionnaire, each nurse wore an actigraph for seven consecutive days to collect for analysis the sleep-wake rhythm parameter dichotomy index (I O) and durations of continuous sleep and wake. Multivariable linear regression was then used to determine whether the influence of various variables on fatigue differed between the two groups. Results revealed that the sleep-wake rhythm parameter I O of the day worker group was significantly higher than that of the shift worker group (
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- 2021
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