Working the night shift involves labor during nighttime hours, typically in industries requiring continuous operations. This schedule disrupts natural circadian rhythms, impacts physical and mental health, and requires targeted strategies for adaptation. Below is a detai...
The method was to use case study organisations which had introduced shiftwork and discover from semi-structured interviews of staff what the effects had been. Findings – Given the choice, employees opted for shiftwork, especially women and especially for a night or evening shift; anticipated ...
My husband works a night shift, and I’m worried that it might be affecting hishealth. He sleeps during the day, but somehow that doesn’t seem the same asgetting a good night’s rest. Am I worrying unnecessarily, or not? Actually, burning the midnight oil, as it were, may raise th...
Many people are not aware of the issues inherent in working nights and other non-traditional shifts. We are just beginning to understand how night shifts impact health. People who work nights appear to have these unwanted health effects because they experience adisruption of their circadian rhythm....
Participants were tested at lunchtime before the first night shift and between 8:30-10:00 am after the last shift. Randomised testing order controlled for practice effects. Eleven participants (9 male); aged 26-36y, completed two computerised tasks at each time point: the Balloon Analogue Risk...
These four categories are mutually exclusive to facilitate interpretation of the independent effects of shift and health worker status, and whether their combination provides an additive or multiplicative association. Analyses were carried out for the whole cohort, and also stratified by ethnicity, and ...
Mann (1965) suggested over 30 years ago that ‘hours of work have long been recognized as having a marked effect on the way an individual and his family lives’. Research investigating the relationship between work hours and health, produced findings whi
And that all brings us to our EHRs, information exchanges, all other extensions of the effort to digitize more and more of healthcare. We are billions of dollars, several years, and waves of adoption into our commitment to meaningful use, HIEs, and all manner of platforms for billing, cod...
Sleep is an important vital biological need for human’s life and health [1] .and Sleep disorder is one of the most important public health concerns around the world [2, 3]. Shift working in most groups of healthcare worker is a necessity [4, 5]. The Studies show that shift working ...
The number of hours of work, working-time arrangements and rest time have significant effects on the quality of work and on quality of life in general. Well-established findings from occupational health studies show that long working hours, night working and patterns of shift work that involve ...