A Longitudinal Study on Trajectories of Night Work and Sickness Absence among Hospital Employees.

ABSTRACT: This study aimed to investigate trajectories of night shift work in irregular shift work across a 12-year follow-up among hospital employees with and without sickness absence (SA). The payroll-based register data of one hospital district in Finland included objective working hours and SA from 2008 to 2019. The number of night shifts per year was used in group-based trajectory modeling (GBTM). The results indicate that, among those who had any sickness absence episodes, the amount of night work decreased prior to the first SA. In general, trajectories of night shift work varied from stably high to low-but-increasing trajectories in terms of the number of shifts. However, a group with decreasing pattern of night work was identified only among those with sickness absence episodes but not amon

SUBMITTER: Krutova O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9265793 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature