Associating night-shift work with lifetime use of sleep medication and sleep quality in a cohort of female nurses.

ABSTRACT: Night-shift workers often sleep at moments, not in sync with their circadian rhythm. Though the acute effects of night-shift work on sleep quality directly after a night shift are well described, less is known about the chronic effects of night-shift work on sleep. We associated ever-working night shifts and recently working night shifts (<4 wk) with lifetime use of sleep medication and melatonin, self-reported average sleep duration and sleep quality over the 4 wk preceding inclusion (measured using the Medical Outcomes Study Sleep scale). We explored trends in sleep outcomes with average frequency of night shifts per week, tenure of night-shift works in years, and time since last performed night work. This research was conducted within the Nightingale study which is a Dutch cohort study

SUBMITTER: van de Langenberg D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10752347 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature