Poor Sleep Quality in Nurses Working or Having Worked Night Shifts: A Cross-Sectional Study.

ABSTRACT: Night shifts are part of clinical care. It is unclear whether poor sleep quality of nurses working both consecutive night shifts and day shifts after quitting night shifts is common. In this cross-sectional study, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) was used to assess sleep quality as study outcome. Univariable and multivariable linear and logistic regressions were performed to compare PSQI score and prevalence of poor sleep quality between 512 nurses currently working consecutive night shifts and 174 nurses having worked night shifts in the past. The prevalence of poor sleep quality was 62.11% in nurses working consecutive night shifts and 55.75% in nurses having worked night shifts before. In multivariable regressions with adjustment for potential confounders, compared with nurses work

SUBMITTER: Huang Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8369413 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature