ArticleInternational archives of occupational and environmental health2020
The longitudinal association between shift work and headache: results from the Danish PRISME cohort.
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- The acute effect of night work-related circadian misalignment on headache episodes: Results from the 1001 nights-cohort.Headache · 2025Article
- Assessing Self-medication Practices Among Healthcare Providers With Migraine in Saudi Arabia.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Exploring the professional and personal impact of migraine: a cross-sectional study in Greece.Journal of oral & facial pain and headache · 2025Article
- Fitness-to-work considerations in the paradigmatic pain condition of headache disorder.The journal of headache and pain · 2025Review
- Gender-related stress factors and emotional perception in migraine: a structured online questionnaire in migraine patients and controls.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2024Observational
- The association between proportion of night shifts and musculoskeletal pain and headaches in nurses: a cross-sectional study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2024Article
- Headache in Workers: A Matched Case-Control Study.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2022Article
- The Impact of Workplace Violence on Headache and Sleep Problems in Nurses.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Sex and gender differences in migraines: a narrative review.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022Review
- Headache in the Workplace: Analysis of Factors Influencing Headaches in Terms of Productivity and Health.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Pain complaints after consecutive nights and quick returns in Norwegian nurses working three-shift rotation: an observational study.BMJ open · 2020Observational
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purposeWe investigated the effect of shift work on headache. Furthermore, we investigated whether the association between shift work and headache was explained by potential mediators in terms of perceived stress, poor sleep and health behaviors.
methodsIn this longitudinal study, we used questionnaire data (collected in 2007 and 2009) from civil servants and hospital employees from the PRISME study. 2952 individuals were available for the analyses of shift work and headache and 2272 individuals were available for the analyses of shift work and migraine. Headache was operationalized as the participants' experience of "being bothered by headache during the past 4 weeks". Migraine was operationalized as "ever being diagnosed with migraine by a medical doctor". We used binary logistic regression to compare shift workers with permanent day workers and adjusted for socio-demographic factors. In a subsequent step, we adjusted for potential mediators.
resultsWe found higher odds of unspecific headache (OR = 1.25; 95% CI 1.02-1.54) and migraine (OR = 1.72; 95% CI 1.04-2.86) among shift workers compared with day workers. Our results suggest that the effect of shift work on headache and migraine differ between men and women. Inclusion of potential mediators in the analyses did not attenuate the associations.
conclusionShift workers have higher risk of reporting being bothered by headache as well as reporting being diagnosed with migraine. Future research is needed to disentangle the underlying mechanisms with the aim of reducing headache related to occupational exposures.
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