ArticleSleep2018
Informal Care and Sleep Disturbance Among Caregivers in Paid Work: Longitudinal Analyses From a Large Community-Based Swedish Cohort Study.
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- Shift work, work time control, and informal caregiving as risk factors for sleep disturbances in an ageing municipal workforce.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2021Pooled it
- Effects of a workplace participatory approach to support working caregivers in balancing work, private life and informal care: a randomized controlled trial.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2025Trial
- Unpaid caregiving and stress among older working-age men and women in Sweden.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- Informal caregiving, time use and experienced wellbeing.Health economics · 2023Article
- Work changes and employee age, maladaptive coping expectations, and well-being: a Swedish cohort study.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2022Article
- Evaluation of a Caregiver-Friendly Workplace Program Intervention on the Health of Full-Time Caregiver Employees: A Time Series Analysis of Intervention Effects.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2020Article
- Informal Caregiving, Chronic Physical Conditions, and Physical Multimorbidity in 48 Low- and Middle-Income Countries.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2020Article
- Reciprocal relations between work stress and insomnia symptoms: A prospective study.Journal of sleep research · 2020Article
- Is combining human service work with family caregiving associated with additional odds of emotional exhaustion and sickness absence? A cross-sectional study based on a Swedish cohort.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2020Article
- Sleep Disturbance, Mental Health Symptoms, and Quality of Life: A Structural Equation Model Assessing Aspects of Caregiver Burden.Clinical gerontologistArticle
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Abstract
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objectivesTo examine cross-sectionally and prospectively whether informal caregiving is related to sleep disturbance among caregivers in paid work.
methodsParticipants (N = 21604) in paid work from the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health. Sleeping problems were measured with a validated scale of sleep disturbance (Karolinska Sleep Questionnaire). Random-effects modeling was used to examine the cross-sectional association between informal caregiving (self-reports: none, up to 5 hours per week, over 5 hours per week) and sleep disturbance. Potential sociodemographic and health confounders were controlled for and interactions between caregiving and gender included. Longitudinal random-effects modeling of the effects of changes in reported informal caregiving upon sleep disturbance and change in sleep disturbance was performed.
resultsIn multivariate analyses controlling for sociodemographics, health factors, and work hours, informal caregiving was associated cross-sectionally with sleep disturbance in a dose-response relationship (compared with no caregiving, up to 5 hours of caregiving: β = 0.03; 95% CI: 0.01, 0.06, and over 5 hours: β = 0.08; 95% CI: 0.02, 0.13), results which varied by gender. Cessation of caregiving was associated with reductions in sleep disturbance (β = -0.08; 95% CI: -0.13, -0.04).
conclusionsThis study provides evidence for a causal association of provision of informal care upon self-reported sleep disturbance. Even low-intensity care provision was related to sleep disturbance among this sample of carers in paid work. The results highlight the importance of addressing sleep disturbance in caregivers.
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