Rotating Night Shifts and Physical Well-Being in Nurses: Cross-Sectional Associations Consistent with a Sleep Quality Pathway.

ABSTRACT: Background: Rotating and night-including shifts disrupt circadian alignment, impair sleep, and may reduce nurses' physiological recovery. Objectives: This study aimed (1) to compare sleep quality and physical well-being across four shift schedules among hospital nurses and (2) to examine whether the association between rotating shifts and physical well-being was statistically consistent with an indirect association via sleep quality. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 173 nurses from a tertiary hospital in Zagreb, Croatia, completed validated measures of sleep quality and physical well-being. Four shift patterns were analyzed-fixed morning, morning-afternoon, extended 12-h, and rotating three-shift-using Welch ANOVA and regression models. A bootstrapped mediation

SUBMITTER: Kolaric A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12845087 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature