Do holidays change subjective sleep length or sleep debt in shift work disorder?
Ind Health
; 60(6): 559-566, 2022 Dec 01.
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| ID: mdl-35173132
ABSTRACT
In shift work disorder (SWD), disturbed sleep acutely impairs employees' recovery, but little attention has been paid to sleep during longer recovery periods. We examined how holidays affect self-estimated sleep length, sleep debt, and recovery in cases of SWD. Twenty-one shift workers with questionnaire-based SWD and nine reference cases without SWD symptoms completed a questionnaire on recovery and sleep need. They also reported sleep length on two separate occasions during a work period and after ≥ 2 weeks of holidays. Sleep debt was calculated by subtracting sleep length from sleep need. We used parametric tests to compare the groups and the periods. The groups reported shorter sleep on workdays than during holidays (median difference SWD group 1.7 h, p<0.001; reference group 1.5 h; p<0.05). The SWD group's self-estimated sleep during holidays increased less above the sleep need (median 0.0 h) than the reference group's sleep (1.0 h, p<0.05). In addition, the SWD group reported good recovery from irregular working hours less often (14%) than the reference group (100%, p<0.001). Although holidays were generally associated with longer sleep estimates than workdays, employees with SWD experienced consistently less efficient recovery than those without SWD.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Sleep Disorders, Circadian Rhythm
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Shift Work Schedule
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Ind Health
Year:
2022
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Finland