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ORIGINAL ARTICLE06-14-2024
Sleep duration and quality of Brazilian nursing staff who work in shifts
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2024;77(2):e20230167
Abstract
ORIGINAL ARTICLESleep duration and quality of Brazilian nursing staff who work in shifts
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2024;77(2):e20230167
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2023-0167
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Objective:
to analyze sleep duration and sleep quality in nursing professionals who work in shifts.
Method:
this is a cross-sectional, analytical research, carried out between September 2017 and April 2018, at a public hospital in southern Brazil, with the nursing team. A socio-occupational and health symptoms questionnaire, the Epworth Sleepiness Scale, and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index were used. Data are presented as descriptive and inferential statistics, bivariate analysis, and binary logistic regression.
Results:
participants were 308 nursing professionals with a predominance of long-term sleep, absence of drowsiness, and poor sleep quality. Short-term sleep (<6h) was associated with day shift and poor sleep quality. Sleep quality was associated with presence excessive daytime sleepiness and work day shift.
Conclusion:
work shift, insomnia and headache were the main factors related short-term sleep for nursing professionals. The results may justify the development of intervention research for workers’ health.
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE04-15-2022
Prevalence and factors associated with poor sleep quality among nursing professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2022;75:e20210517
Abstract
ORIGINAL ARTICLEPrevalence and factors associated with poor sleep quality among nursing professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2022;75:e20210517
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2021-0517
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Objective:
to identify the prevalence and factors associated with poor sleep quality among nursing professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Method:
a cross-sectional study, conducted in June and July 2020, with 890 nursing professionals. To screen the outcome, question 3 of the Self-Reporting Questionnaire was used, assessing poor sleep quality 30 days preceding the application of the questionnaire. Associations between variables of interest were tested using Poisson regression models.
Results:
the prevalence of poor sleep quality was 68%. Associated factors were moderate or heavy workload, poor assessment of working conditions, suspected infection with COVID-19, more than two thirds of the workload for pandemic and the use of psychotropic drugs.
Conclusion:
the study pointed out a high prevalence of poor sleep quality among nursing workers with an important relationship with working conditions.