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Impact of night shifts on sleeping patterns, psychosocial and physical well-being among healthcare professionals: a cross-sectional study in a tertiary hospital in Saudi Arabia

BACKGROUND: Shift work and night shifts are very common in healthcare organisations worldwide. However, healthcare professionals doing shift work and night shifts are exposed to several stressors with psychological, social, physical and sleeping consequences. This study aimed to evaluate the effect...

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Autores principales: Qanash, Sultan, Alwafi, Hassan, Barasheed, Shaima, Bashnaini, Shahad, Andergiri, Rahaf, Yaghmour, Loujain, Murad, Weam, Shabrawishi, Mohammed, Naser, Abdallah Y, Alsywid, Basim
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8413872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34475149
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046036
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author Qanash, Sultan
Alwafi, Hassan
Barasheed, Shaima
Bashnaini, Shahad
Andergiri, Rahaf
Yaghmour, Loujain
Murad, Weam
Shabrawishi, Mohammed
Naser, Abdallah Y
Alsywid, Basim
author_facet Qanash, Sultan
Alwafi, Hassan
Barasheed, Shaima
Bashnaini, Shahad
Andergiri, Rahaf
Yaghmour, Loujain
Murad, Weam
Shabrawishi, Mohammed
Naser, Abdallah Y
Alsywid, Basim
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description BACKGROUND: Shift work and night shifts are very common in healthcare organisations worldwide. However, healthcare professionals doing shift work and night shifts are exposed to several stressors with psychological, social, physical and sleeping consequences. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of night shifts on the psychosocial, physical well-being and sleeping patterns of healthcare professionals in Saudi Arabia. METHODS: We conducted an observational cross-sectional study from July to September 2019 at King Abdulaziz Medical City, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Convenience sampling technique was used to recruit healthcare providers to participate in the study. The outcomes measured included the effect of working hours of healthcare workers on psychosocial and physical health, substance use, and sleep quality and patterns. Pearson’s χ(2) test was used to compare proportions, and Student’s t-test/Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to examine the mean differences among different demographic groups. RESULTS: A total of 352 healthcare providers were involved in the study, of whom only 272 were night shift workers. The mean level of job satisfaction was higher among day shift workers than night shift workers: the mean scores were 3.82 (SD=0.93) and 3.48 (SD=1.04), respectively, p=0.007. Moreover, social life was more adversely affected among night shift workers compared with day shift workers: 3.95 (SD=1.11) and 3.61 (SD=1.25), respectively, p<0.030. Likewise, family life was more adversely affected among night shift workers than day shift workers, with a mean of 3.92 (SD=1.10) and 3.50 (SD=1.21), respectively, p<0.006. Around 71% of night shift workers reported having poor-quality sleep compared with 50% of day shift workers (p=0.001). CONCLUSION: Quality of life is poor among night shift workers than day shift workers, particularly concerning sleep and social and physical outcomes. Further research is needed to investigate factors associated with the quality of sleep and the psychosocial and physical well-being of healthcare professionals working night shifts.
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spelling pubmed-84138722021-09-22 Impact of night shifts on sleeping patterns, psychosocial and physical well-being among healthcare professionals: a cross-sectional study in a tertiary hospital in Saudi Arabia Qanash, Sultan Alwafi, Hassan Barasheed, Shaima Bashnaini, Shahad Andergiri, Rahaf Yaghmour, Loujain Murad, Weam Shabrawishi, Mohammed Naser, Abdallah Y Alsywid, Basim BMJ Open Occupational and Environmental Medicine BACKGROUND: Shift work and night shifts are very common in healthcare organisations worldwide. However, healthcare professionals doing shift work and night shifts are exposed to several stressors with psychological, social, physical and sleeping consequences. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of night shifts on the psychosocial, physical well-being and sleeping patterns of healthcare professionals in Saudi Arabia. METHODS: We conducted an observational cross-sectional study from July to September 2019 at King Abdulaziz Medical City, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Convenience sampling technique was used to recruit healthcare providers to participate in the study. The outcomes measured included the effect of working hours of healthcare workers on psychosocial and physical health, substance use, and sleep quality and patterns. Pearson’s χ(2) test was used to compare proportions, and Student’s t-test/Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to examine the mean differences among different demographic groups. RESULTS: A total of 352 healthcare providers were involved in the study, of whom only 272 were night shift workers. The mean level of job satisfaction was higher among day shift workers than night shift workers: the mean scores were 3.82 (SD=0.93) and 3.48 (SD=1.04), respectively, p=0.007. Moreover, social life was more adversely affected among night shift workers compared with day shift workers: 3.95 (SD=1.11) and 3.61 (SD=1.25), respectively, p<0.030. Likewise, family life was more adversely affected among night shift workers than day shift workers, with a mean of 3.92 (SD=1.10) and 3.50 (SD=1.21), respectively, p<0.006. Around 71% of night shift workers reported having poor-quality sleep compared with 50% of day shift workers (p=0.001). CONCLUSION: Quality of life is poor among night shift workers than day shift workers, particularly concerning sleep and social and physical outcomes. Further research is needed to investigate factors associated with the quality of sleep and the psychosocial and physical well-being of healthcare professionals working night shifts. BMJ Publishing Group 2021-09-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8413872/ /pubmed/34475149 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046036 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) .
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Qanash, Sultan
Alwafi, Hassan
Barasheed, Shaima
Bashnaini, Shahad
Andergiri, Rahaf
Yaghmour, Loujain
Murad, Weam
Shabrawishi, Mohammed
Naser, Abdallah Y
Alsywid, Basim
Impact of night shifts on sleeping patterns, psychosocial and physical well-being among healthcare professionals: a cross-sectional study in a tertiary hospital in Saudi Arabia
title Impact of night shifts on sleeping patterns, psychosocial and physical well-being among healthcare professionals: a cross-sectional study in a tertiary hospital in Saudi Arabia
title_full Impact of night shifts on sleeping patterns, psychosocial and physical well-being among healthcare professionals: a cross-sectional study in a tertiary hospital in Saudi Arabia
title_fullStr Impact of night shifts on sleeping patterns, psychosocial and physical well-being among healthcare professionals: a cross-sectional study in a tertiary hospital in Saudi Arabia
title_full_unstemmed Impact of night shifts on sleeping patterns, psychosocial and physical well-being among healthcare professionals: a cross-sectional study in a tertiary hospital in Saudi Arabia
title_short Impact of night shifts on sleeping patterns, psychosocial and physical well-being among healthcare professionals: a cross-sectional study in a tertiary hospital in Saudi Arabia
title_sort impact of night shifts on sleeping patterns, psychosocial and physical well-being among healthcare professionals: a cross-sectional study in a tertiary hospital in saudi arabia
topic Occupational and Environmental Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8413872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34475149
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046036
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