Hospital physicians´ working hour characteristics and sleep quality: a cross-sectional analysis of realized working hour and survey data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospital physicians' work includes on-call duties to provide 24/7 health care. Previous studies using self-reported survey data have associated long working hours and on-call work with sleep difficulties. To reduce recall bias, we complemented survey data with payroll-based objective data to study whether hospital physicians' realized working hours are associated with sleep.

Methods

The study was nested within the Finnish Public Sector study. We used survey data on 728 hospital physicians (mean age 43.4 years, 62% females) from 2015 linked to realized daily working hour data from 3 months preceding the survey. The associations of working hour characteristics with sleep quantity and quality were studied with multinomial logistic regression analysis adjusted for dem

SUBMITTER: Karhula K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9308190 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature