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Implications of Lifestyle and Occupational Factors on the Risk of Breast Cancer in Shiftwork Nurses
Shift work that involves circadian disruption has been highlighted as a likely carcinogenic factor for breast cancer in humans. Also, unhealthy lifestyle habits observed in night work nurses could be causally related to an increase in the incidence of estrogen-positive breast tumours in this populat...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8228409/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34070908 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9060649 |
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author | Fagundo-Rivera, Javier Allande-Cussó, Regina Ortega-Moreno, Mónica García-Iglesias, Juan Jesús Romero, Adolfo Ruiz-Frutos, Carlos Gómez-Salgado, Juan |
author_facet | Fagundo-Rivera, Javier Allande-Cussó, Regina Ortega-Moreno, Mónica García-Iglesias, Juan Jesús Romero, Adolfo Ruiz-Frutos, Carlos Gómez-Salgado, Juan |
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description | Shift work that involves circadian disruption has been highlighted as a likely carcinogenic factor for breast cancer in humans. Also, unhealthy lifestyle habits observed in night work nurses could be causally related to an increase in the incidence of estrogen-positive breast tumours in this population. Assessing baseline risk of breast cancer in nurses is essential. The objective of this study was to analyze the risk of breast cancer that nurses had in relation to their lifestyle and labour factors related to shift work. A cross-sectional descriptive study through a questionnaire about sociodemographic variables, self-perception of health, and working life was designed. The sample consisted of 966 nurses. The relationship between variables was tested. A binary logistic regression and a classification and regression tree were performed. The most significant labour variables in relation to the risk of breast cancer were the number of years worked (more than 16 years; p < 0.01; OR = 8.733, 95% CI = 2.811, 27.134) and the total years performing more than 3 nights per month (10 or more years; p < 0.05; OR = 2.294, 95% CI = 1.008, 5.220). Also, the nights worked throughout life (over 500; OR = 4.190, 95% CI = 2.118, 8.287) were significant in the analysis. Nurses who had or ever had breast cancer valued their self-perceived health more negatively (p < 0.001) and referred a lower quality of sleep (p < 0.001) than the non-cases nurses. The occupational factors derived from night work could have several impacts on nurses’ health and their family-work balance. Promoting healthy lifestyles, informing about shift work risks, and adjusting shift work schedules are critical methods to decrease the possible effects of circadian disruption in nurses. |
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spelling | pubmed-82284092021-06-26 Implications of Lifestyle and Occupational Factors on the Risk of Breast Cancer in Shiftwork Nurses Fagundo-Rivera, Javier Allande-Cussó, Regina Ortega-Moreno, Mónica García-Iglesias, Juan Jesús Romero, Adolfo Ruiz-Frutos, Carlos Gómez-Salgado, Juan Healthcare (Basel) Article Shift work that involves circadian disruption has been highlighted as a likely carcinogenic factor for breast cancer in humans. Also, unhealthy lifestyle habits observed in night work nurses could be causally related to an increase in the incidence of estrogen-positive breast tumours in this population. Assessing baseline risk of breast cancer in nurses is essential. The objective of this study was to analyze the risk of breast cancer that nurses had in relation to their lifestyle and labour factors related to shift work. A cross-sectional descriptive study through a questionnaire about sociodemographic variables, self-perception of health, and working life was designed. The sample consisted of 966 nurses. The relationship between variables was tested. A binary logistic regression and a classification and regression tree were performed. The most significant labour variables in relation to the risk of breast cancer were the number of years worked (more than 16 years; p < 0.01; OR = 8.733, 95% CI = 2.811, 27.134) and the total years performing more than 3 nights per month (10 or more years; p < 0.05; OR = 2.294, 95% CI = 1.008, 5.220). Also, the nights worked throughout life (over 500; OR = 4.190, 95% CI = 2.118, 8.287) were significant in the analysis. Nurses who had or ever had breast cancer valued their self-perceived health more negatively (p < 0.001) and referred a lower quality of sleep (p < 0.001) than the non-cases nurses. The occupational factors derived from night work could have several impacts on nurses’ health and their family-work balance. Promoting healthy lifestyles, informing about shift work risks, and adjusting shift work schedules are critical methods to decrease the possible effects of circadian disruption in nurses. MDPI 2021-05-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8228409/ /pubmed/34070908 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9060649 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Fagundo-Rivera, Javier Allande-Cussó, Regina Ortega-Moreno, Mónica García-Iglesias, Juan Jesús Romero, Adolfo Ruiz-Frutos, Carlos Gómez-Salgado, Juan Implications of Lifestyle and Occupational Factors on the Risk of Breast Cancer in Shiftwork Nurses |
title | Implications of Lifestyle and Occupational Factors on the Risk of Breast Cancer in Shiftwork Nurses |
title_full | Implications of Lifestyle and Occupational Factors on the Risk of Breast Cancer in Shiftwork Nurses |
title_fullStr | Implications of Lifestyle and Occupational Factors on the Risk of Breast Cancer in Shiftwork Nurses |
title_full_unstemmed | Implications of Lifestyle and Occupational Factors on the Risk of Breast Cancer in Shiftwork Nurses |
title_short | Implications of Lifestyle and Occupational Factors on the Risk of Breast Cancer in Shiftwork Nurses |
title_sort | implications of lifestyle and occupational factors on the risk of breast cancer in shiftwork nurses |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8228409/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34070908 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9060649 |
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