Nurses and Night Shifts: Poor Sleep Quality Exacerbates Psychomotor Performance.
poor sleep quality
psychomotor performance
shift work
sleepiness
sustained attention
Journal
Frontiers in neuroscience
ISSN: 1662-4548
Titre abrégé: Front Neurosci
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101478481
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
received:
03
07
2020
accepted:
10
09
2020
entrez:
6
11
2020
pubmed:
7
11
2020
medline:
7
11
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
In Europe, 40% of health-care employees are involved in shift work. The altered sleep/wake rhythm of night-shift nurses is also associated with deteriorated cognitive efficiency. In this study, we examine the effects of the night shift on psychomotor performance, sleepiness, and tiredness in a large sample of shift-working nurses and evaluated if poor sleep quality, sex, age, or years on the job could impact on a better adaptation to shift work. Eighty-six nurses with 8-h-rapidly-rotating-shifts were evaluated at the end of three shifts (morning/afternoon/night) for sleepiness and tiredness. Sleepiness, as measured by the Karolinska Sleepiness Scale, and tiredness, as measured by the Tiredness Symptoms Scale, were more pronounced after the night shift. These increases were paralleled by lower attentional performance on the psychomotor vigilance task (PVT) after the night shift. While sex, age, and years on the job did not affect PVT performance after the night shift, lower sleep quality (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality, PSQI > 5) was associated with decreased performance. The high prevalence of altered sleep quality showed that nurses, and shift workers in general, are at risk for a poor sleep quality. The evaluation of sleep quality through PSQI could represent a rapid, inexpensive tool to assess health-care workers assigned to rotating night shifts or to evaluate nurses who coped poorly with night-shift work.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33154716
doi: 10.3389/fnins.2020.579938
pmc: PMC7591770
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
579938Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 Di Muzio, Diella, Di Simone, Novelli, Alfonsi, Scarpelli, Annarumma, Salfi, Pazzaglia, Giannini and De Gennaro.
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