Effect of shift work on fatigue and sleep in neonatal registrars.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We aimed to study fatigue and sleep in registrars working 12-hour rotating shifts in our tertiary neonatal intensive unit.

Methods and participants

This study involved neonatal registrar's working day (08:00-21:00) and night (20:30-08:30) shifts. Participants maintained a sleep diary, answered a self-reported sleepiness questionnaire assessing subjective sleepiness, and performed a 10-minute psychomotor vigilance task (PVT) at the start and end of each shift. Primary outcomes: (1) Fatigue at the (i) "start vs end" of day and night shifts, (ii) end of the "day vs night" shifts, and (iii) end of "first vs last shift" in block of day and night shifts. (2) Duration and quality of sleep before the "day vs night" shifts. Mean reaction time (RTM), relative coefficient of

SUBMITTER: Anvekar AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7808639 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature