Night-shift work is associated with increased pain perception
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2017 OBJECTIVES: The aim of the present study was to determine whether shift workers exhibit increased perception of experimentally induced pain after working night shifts.
Dagfinn Matre +2 more
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Frontiers in Neurology, 2018 Insomnia and excessive sleepiness are among the most commonly reported sleep problems related to shift work. Sleep-related movement disorders have, however, received far less attention in relation to such work schedules.
Siri Waage +6 more
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Shift Work: A Perspective on Shift Work Disorder—Is Prevention the Answer? [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 2019 The prevalence of shift work in the United States is nearly 20%, but recognition of shift work disorder (SWD) among shift workers is still a challenge. The health care sector is no exception. While a substantial portion of shift workers are physicians and nurses, expertise in identifying SWD is lacking.
Amit, Gupta +3 more
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Association of changes in work shifts and shift intensity with change in fatigue and disturbed sleep: a within-subject study [PDF]
, 2022 Objectives The aim of this study was to examine whether changes in work shifts and shift intensity are related to changes in difficulties to fall asleep, fatigue, and sleep length.Methods Questionnaire responses of hospital employees (N=7727, 93% women ...
Hakola T +10 more
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Sleep Loss and Fatigue in Shift Work and Shift Work Disorder [PDF]
Sleep Medicine Clinics, 2009 Shift work is highly prevalent in industrialized societies (>20%) but, when it includes night work, it has pronounced negative effects on sleep, subjective and physiological sleepiness, performance, accident risk, as well as on health outcomes such as cardiovascular disease and certain forms of cancer.
Torbjörn, Akerstedt, Kenneth P, Wright
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Night-shift work and hematological cancers: a population based case–control study in three Nordic countries [PDF]
, 2018 Objective The aim of this case–control study was to assess the effect of night-shift work on the risk of hematological cancers. Methods The study included 39 371 leukemia, 56 713 non-Hodgkin lymphoma, 9322 Hodgkin lymphoma, and 26 188 multiple myeloma
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An exploration into the impact that shift work has on the nutritional behaviours of UK police officers [PDF]
, 2023 Police officers are at high-risk of developing obesity and cardiometabolic health conditions. Their job presents challenges that contribute to this, predominantly shift work, which causes circadian misalignment and can impair metabolism. Food consumption
Safi, A., Deb, S., Allen, K.
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Scientific challenges of studying shift schedule design
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2022 The study of shift schedule design, and its impact on the health, safety and the performance of shiftworkers, has seen considerable advances in methodology in the last decade.
Philip Tucker
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Psychosocial Features of Shift Work Disorder
Brain Sciences, 2021 To better understand Shift Work Disorder (SWD), this study investigates insomnia, sleepiness, and psychosocial features of night workers. The study compares night workers with or without SWD to day workers with or without insomnia.
Annie Vallières +4 more
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Nurses’ shift length and overtime working in 12 European countries: the association with perceived quality of care and patient safety [PDF]
, 2014 Background: Despite concerns as to whether nurses can perform reliably and effectively when working longer shifts, a pattern of two 12- to 13-hour shifts per day is becoming common in many hospitals to reduce shift to shift handovers, staffing overlap ...
Aiken, L.H. +28 more
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