TY - JOUR

T1 - Shiftwork and the length and quality of sleep

AU - Frese, Michael

AU - Harwich, Claudia

PY - 1984/8/1

Y1 - 1984/8/1

N2 - Previous investigators have reported that amount and quality of sleep are reduced in the shiftworker. The finding that night and morning shifts lead to shortened sleeping hours is replicated in this study. Overall sleeping time, however, was not found to be different for workers on different shift schedules or for shiftworkers and nonshiftworkers. The correlation between length and quality of sleep was very low. Length of sleep was not predicted well by factors such as stress at work, noisiness of sleeping room, drinking coffee, and smoking cigarettes, although these and similar predictors were strongly related to quality of sleep. Shiftwork was found to have a consistent effect on quality of sleep, even when other variables were controlled. © 1984 The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

AB - Previous investigators have reported that amount and quality of sleep are reduced in the shiftworker. The finding that night and morning shifts lead to shortened sleeping hours is replicated in this study. Overall sleeping time, however, was not found to be different for workers on different shift schedules or for shiftworkers and nonshiftworkers. The correlation between length and quality of sleep was very low. Length of sleep was not predicted well by factors such as stress at work, noisiness of sleeping room, drinking coffee, and smoking cigarettes, although these and similar predictors were strongly related to quality of sleep. Shiftwork was found to have a consistent effect on quality of sleep, even when other variables were controlled. © 1984 The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

KW - Business psychology

KW - Coffee/adverse effects

KW - Female

KW - Humans

KW - Male

KW - Noise/adverse effects

KW - Sleep/physiology

KW - Sleep Deprivation

KW - Smoking

KW - Stress, Physiological/physiopathology

KW - Work

KW - Work Schedule Tolerance

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U2 - 10.1097/00043764-198408000-00008

DO - 10.1097/00043764-198408000-00008

M3 - Journal articles

C2 - 6481495

AN - SCOPUS:0021193384

VL - 26

SP - 561

EP - 566

JO - Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

JF - Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

SN - 1076-2752

IS - 8

ER -