Today's society is driven by a 24 h mentality which demands that over 8.6 million people (in the USA) perform shift work (Kryger et al. 2005 ). Circadian factors are a primary determinant of one's ability to cope with shift work. Humans are biologically wired to sleep during the night...
Exposure to light at night suppresses the physiologic production of melatonin, a hormone that has antiproliferative effects on intestinal cancers. Although observational studies have associated night-shift work with an increased risk of breast cancer, the effect of night-shift work on the risk of othe...
This study is aimed at identifying the effects of night shift duty on the health and wellbeing of nurses in order to make recommendations on ways of ameliorating them.The study was ofa cross sectional descriptive type using a total sample of nurses in the hospital. Data collection was by mean...
The aim of the current study was to characterise sleep-wake behaviour, circadian timing and alertness in shift workers in a healthcare setting. We specifically examined sleep and wake duration between shift transitions, temporal patterns of alertness and performance on the first and final night shif...
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Shift work and especially night work disrupts the sleep/wake cycle and causes a desynchronization of the natural biological rhythms. Therefore, different shift schedules may have different impact on performance at work and health.AimThe purpose was to study if health, reaction time, and the ...
And still, as anyone who’s worked a night shift, taken care of a toddler or fumbled back home after a party might tell you: Going to bed and waking up at the same times is easier said than done. “It’s a luxury, rig...
Night shift work was defined as working hours between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. Based on this information, two main variables, cur- rent and cumulative night shift, were formed. The variable 'current night shift' was subdivided into a binary variable (night shift yes or no), and a ...
The present study focused on the impact of the number of consecutive night shifts worked on the health and well-being of two groups of nurses (permanent night and rotating shift). All nurses completed a copy of the Standard Shiftwork Index, which is a set of questionnaires designed for ...
被引量: 585发表: 2012年 Increased injuries on night shift Concern over safety has resulted in legislation by, for example, the Commission of the European Union, to limit the number of hours worked at night. There ... L Smith,S Folkard,CJM Poole - 《Lancet》 被引量: 388发表: 1994年 ...