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Differences in Daytime Activity Levels and Daytime Sleep Between Night and Day Duty: An Observational Study in Italian Orthopedic Nurses

Working nonstandard work schedules is often associated with increased sedentary behavior and risk of sleep disorders. Night shift workers are prone to accumulating sleep debt, which they recover by sleeping during the day. The effect on daytime activity levels is unknown. The present study aims to o...

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Autores principales: Roveda, Eliana, Castelli, Lucia, Galasso, Letizia, Mulè, Antonino, Cè, Emiliano, Condemi, Vincenzo, Banfi, Giuseppe, Montaruli, Angela, Esposito, Fabio
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7959824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33732163
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2021.628231
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author Roveda, Eliana
Castelli, Lucia
Galasso, Letizia
Mulè, Antonino
Cè, Emiliano
Condemi, Vincenzo
Banfi, Giuseppe
Montaruli, Angela
Esposito, Fabio
author_facet Roveda, Eliana
Castelli, Lucia
Galasso, Letizia
Mulè, Antonino
Cè, Emiliano
Condemi, Vincenzo
Banfi, Giuseppe
Montaruli, Angela
Esposito, Fabio
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description Working nonstandard work schedules is often associated with increased sedentary behavior and risk of sleep disorders. Night shift workers are prone to accumulating sleep debt, which they recover by sleeping during the day. The effect on daytime activity levels is unknown. The present study aims to objectively assess whether daytime sleep could affect daytime activity levels of shift worker nurses, resulting in an accumulation of their activity debt differently between working and rest periods. The study population (N = 37; mean age 41.7 ± 9.1 years) was composed of orthopedic nurses working on a rotating schedule, including either a night shift (NS) or only day/afternoon shift (DS). Actigraph monitoring lasted both on the working and the rest period. For the NS nurses, the working period recorded higher daytime activity levels than the rest period, while daytime sleep during the working and rest periods was similar. Conversely, DS nurses showed higher daytime activity levels and shorter daytime sleep during the working period. NS nurses were less active than DS nurses during the working period, probably because NS tended to have a longer daytime sleep. During the rest period, daytime activity levels for both groups were decreased. For NS nurses, sleep recorded the better sleep parameters during the rest period, while sleep parameters did not show significant differences between the working and the rest periods in DS. During the working period, NS nurses slept worse than the DS nurses. Both groups tended to accumulate a debt in daytime activity levels during the rest period. While daytime sleep may be an excellent way to counteract sleep debt and increase sleep duration over 24 h period, on the other hand, it makes nurses less active.
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spelling pubmed-79598242021-03-16 Differences in Daytime Activity Levels and Daytime Sleep Between Night and Day Duty: An Observational Study in Italian Orthopedic Nurses Roveda, Eliana Castelli, Lucia Galasso, Letizia Mulè, Antonino Cè, Emiliano Condemi, Vincenzo Banfi, Giuseppe Montaruli, Angela Esposito, Fabio Front Physiol Physiology Working nonstandard work schedules is often associated with increased sedentary behavior and risk of sleep disorders. Night shift workers are prone to accumulating sleep debt, which they recover by sleeping during the day. The effect on daytime activity levels is unknown. The present study aims to objectively assess whether daytime sleep could affect daytime activity levels of shift worker nurses, resulting in an accumulation of their activity debt differently between working and rest periods. The study population (N = 37; mean age 41.7 ± 9.1 years) was composed of orthopedic nurses working on a rotating schedule, including either a night shift (NS) or only day/afternoon shift (DS). Actigraph monitoring lasted both on the working and the rest period. For the NS nurses, the working period recorded higher daytime activity levels than the rest period, while daytime sleep during the working and rest periods was similar. Conversely, DS nurses showed higher daytime activity levels and shorter daytime sleep during the working period. NS nurses were less active than DS nurses during the working period, probably because NS tended to have a longer daytime sleep. During the rest period, daytime activity levels for both groups were decreased. For NS nurses, sleep recorded the better sleep parameters during the rest period, while sleep parameters did not show significant differences between the working and the rest periods in DS. During the working period, NS nurses slept worse than the DS nurses. Both groups tended to accumulate a debt in daytime activity levels during the rest period. While daytime sleep may be an excellent way to counteract sleep debt and increase sleep duration over 24 h period, on the other hand, it makes nurses less active. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-02-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7959824/ /pubmed/33732163 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2021.628231 Text en Copyright © 2021 Roveda, Castelli, Galasso, Mulè, Cè, Condemi, Banfi, Montaruli and Esposito. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Physiology
Roveda, Eliana
Castelli, Lucia
Galasso, Letizia
Mulè, Antonino
Cè, Emiliano
Condemi, Vincenzo
Banfi, Giuseppe
Montaruli, Angela
Esposito, Fabio
Differences in Daytime Activity Levels and Daytime Sleep Between Night and Day Duty: An Observational Study in Italian Orthopedic Nurses
title Differences in Daytime Activity Levels and Daytime Sleep Between Night and Day Duty: An Observational Study in Italian Orthopedic Nurses
title_full Differences in Daytime Activity Levels and Daytime Sleep Between Night and Day Duty: An Observational Study in Italian Orthopedic Nurses
title_fullStr Differences in Daytime Activity Levels and Daytime Sleep Between Night and Day Duty: An Observational Study in Italian Orthopedic Nurses
title_full_unstemmed Differences in Daytime Activity Levels and Daytime Sleep Between Night and Day Duty: An Observational Study in Italian Orthopedic Nurses
title_short Differences in Daytime Activity Levels and Daytime Sleep Between Night and Day Duty: An Observational Study in Italian Orthopedic Nurses
title_sort differences in daytime activity levels and daytime sleep between night and day duty: an observational study in italian orthopedic nurses
topic Physiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7959824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33732163
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2021.628231
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