Workplace Interventions to Promote Sleep Health and an Alert, Healthy Workforce.

ABSTRACT:

Study objectives

The purpose of this review is to synthesize the published literature that addresses employer-initiated interventions to improve the sleep of workers and in turn improve health, productivity, absenteeism, and other outcomes that have been associated with sleep disorders or sleep deficiency.

Methods

We conducted a systematic search and a selective narrative review of publications in PubMed from 1966 to December 2017. We extracted study characteristics, including the workers' professions, workplace settings and shift work, and workplace interventions focused on worker sleep. Because of the high degree of heterogeneity in design and outcomes, we conducted a narrative review.

Results

We identified 219 publications. After restriction to publications with st

SUBMITTER: Redeker NS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6457507 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature