Doctors' alertness, contentedness and calmness before and after night shifts: a latent profile analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While night shifts are crucial for patient care, they threaten doctors' well-being and performance. Knowledge of how the impact of night shifts differs for doctors is needed to attenuate the adverse effects of night shifts. This study aimed to obtain more precise insight into doctors' feelings surrounding night shift by: identifying profiles based on doctors' alertness, contentedness and calmness scores before and after night shifts (research question (RQ) 1); assessing how doctors' pre- and post-shift profiles change (RQ2); and determining associations of doctors' demographics and shift circumstances with alertness, contentedness and calmness change (RQ3).

Methods

Latent Profile Analysis using doctors' pre- and post-shift self-rated alertness, contentedness and c

SUBMITTER: Debets MPM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10441714 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature