ArticlePloS one2017
The relationship between shift work and mental health among electronics workers in South Korea: A cross-sectional study.
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- Socioeconomic factors associated with suicidal behaviors in South Korea: systematic review on the current state of evidence.BMC public health · 2022Pooled it
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- Brain structural correlates of subjective sleepiness and insomnia symptoms in shift workers.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Assessment of Insomnia Among Emergency Department Physicians in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia, 2023.Cureus · 2023Article
- Association between shift work and the risk of hypothyroidism in adult male workers in Korea: a cohort study.Annals of occupational and environmental medicine · 2023Article
- A broken circadian clock: The emerging neuro-immune link connecting depression to cancer.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2022Article
- Association between sleep quality and type of shift work in Korean firefighters.Annals of occupational and environmental medicine · 2022Article
- The Mental Health and Syndemic Effect on Suicidal Ideation among Migrant Workers in China: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- The Impact of Shift Work on Occupational Health Indicators among Professionally Active Adults: A Comparative Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- A Longitudinal Study of the Relationship between Shift Work and Prostate-Specific Antigen in Healthy Male Workers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Do depression and its associated factors differ in women daytime and shift workers?: an analysis of the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2018.Korean journal of women health nursing · 2021Article
- Association of Sleep Duration and Working Hours with Suicidal Ideation in Shift Workers: The Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2007-2018.Psychiatry investigation · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine the relationship between shift work and mental health, particularly insomnia, depression, and suicidal ideation, among electronics production workers.
methodsA survey was conducted with 14,226 workers from an electronics manufacturer in South Korea. After excluding 112 individuals with incomplete responses, 14,114 respondents were analyzed. As part of a larger project, we collected data on respondents' general characteristics, work-related characteristics, and health status; however, in this study, we focused on the data related to shift work and mental health. Insomnia, depression, and suicidal ideation were set as dependent variables and working schedule as set as the independent variable. We performed multiple logistic regression analysis with daytime workers as the reference group. The model was adjusted for age, gender, body mass index, workplace, educational level, and marital status with or without children under 6 years of age.
resultsRelative to daytime workers, shift workers had 2.35, 1.23, and 1.17 greater odds of insomnia, depression, and suicidal ideation, respectively. Within the shift worker group, we found that the odds of depression and suicidal ideation increased dramatically when respondents had insomnia. The ORs for depression and suicidal ideation were 4.899 and 7.934, respectively.
conclusionsOur findings suggest that shift work is related to an increased risk of mental health problems in production workers, and the sleep disturbance related with shift work is a central mechanism for this relationship. Since these results suggest that proactive management of sleep problems might attenuate their detrimental effects on shift worker's mental health.
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