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Background Healthcare professionals worldwide are prone to sleep disturbance. Such sleep disturbance is associated with lower patient safety and quality of care.
Ari Min, Hye Chong Hong
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The Relationship between the Environmental Noise Intensity, Feeling and Annoyance with the Shiftwork in the Emergency Department [PDF]
Background: Noise pollution is a serious issue in hospitals, especially in emergency departments where high noise levels from emergency patients and treatments can negatively affect medical personnel and patients. This study aimed to measure noise levels
Farhanaz Khajeh Nasiri +1 more
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Background Non-standard work schedules (NSWSs), occurring outside of regular and predictable daytime hours, may negatively affect worker and family health.
Adekemi O. Suleiman +5 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]
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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Background & aims The individual effect of working schedule on survival in the hypertensive population has not been adequately studied. Shiftworkers are also prone to unhealthy lifestyles like pro-inflammatory diet.
Yukun Li +12 more
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Increasing evidence has shown that shift work impairs health, such as a 50% increased risk of breast cancer, a 40% increased risk for obesity, and a 40% increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
Hsieh, Alice
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Shift Work and Shift Work Sleep Disorders: Definition, Symptoms and Treatment [PDF]
Today, due to the rapid progress of the global industrial economy, the use of new technologies and the economic competition environment, the necessity of 24 hour interrupted job production has increased and this has caused the obligation to work with the
Duygu Kurt Gök +5 more
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Objectives To evaluate mental health-related outcomes of police officers 5.5 years after implementing a new alternating shift schedule which was supposed to improve their health and work–life balance.Design Pre–post study design with a baseline survey at
Marcial Velasco Garrido +6 more
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The impact of shift work induced chronic circadian disruption on IL-6 and TNF-α immune responses [PDF]
Aim: Sleep disturbances induce proinflammatory immune responses, which might increase cardiovascular disease risk. So far the effects of acute sleep deprivation and chronic sleep illnesses on the immune system have been investigated.
Mark, Anke van +26 more
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Objective: To determine the difference in the sleep quality and work performance of nurses between one shift duty, two shifts duty, and three shifts duty in intensive care units at a government hospital in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
Fatema Ateya Alaradi +2 more
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