Effects of Changing Shift Schedules from a Full-day to a Half-day Shift before a Night Shift on Physical Activities and Sleep Patterns of Single Nurses and Married Nurses with Children

To clarify the effects of changing shift schedules from a full-day to a half-day before a night shift, 12 single nurses and 18 married nurses with children that engaged in night shift work in a Japanese hospital were investigated. Subjects worked 2 different shift patterns consisting of a night shif...

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Published in:Industrial Health 2004, Vol.42(1), pp.34-40
Main Authors: WATANABE, Misuzu, AKAMATSU, Yasuhiro, FURUI, Hikari, TOMITA, Teruyuki, WATANABE, Takemasa, KOBAYASHI, Fumio
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Analysis of Variance
family studies
Family-home responsibility
Female
Humans
Japan
Mothers
Night Care
Night shift
Nurses
nursing
Physical activity
Shift work
Single Person
Sleep
Sleep - physiology
Work Schedule Tolerance - physiology
working conditions
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Summary:To clarify the effects of changing shift schedules from a full-day to a half-day before a night shift, 12 single nurses and 18 married nurses with children that engaged in night shift work in a Japanese hospital were investigated. Subjects worked 2 different shift patterns consisting of a night shift after a half-day shift (HF-N) and a night shift after a day shift (D-N). Physical activity levels were recorded with a physical activity volume meter to measure sleep/wake time more precisely without restricting subjects' activities. The duration of sleep before a night shift of married nurses was significantly shorter than that of single nurses for both shift schedules. Changing shift from the D-N to the HF-N increased the duration of sleep before a night shift for both groups, and made wake-up time earlier for single nurses only. Repeated ANCOVA of the series of physical activities showed significant differences with shift (p
ISSN:0019-8366
1880-8026
DOI:10.2486/indhealth.42.34