ArticleNutrients2020
Dietary Patterns of Nurses on Rotational Shifts Are Marked by Redistribution of Energy into the Nightshift.
Article in Nutrients, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- Dietary Patterns under the Influence of Rotational Shift Work Schedules: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2023Pooled it
- The swift study: dietary profiles of night shift workers characterised by overweight and obesity.European journal of nutrition · 2026Trial
- The Effect of Exogenous Melatonin on Eating Habits of Female Night Workers with Excessive Weight.Nutrients · 2022Trial
- Chronic Circadian Disruption and Sleep Restriction Influence Subjective Hunger, Appetite, and Food Preference.Nutrients · 2022Trial
- Understanding Chrononutrition for Managing Shift Workers' Health: A Narrative Review and Future Directions.The Medical journal of Australia · 2026Review
- The nutritional and metabolic impact of night shift work in a real-world setting.Npj biological timing and sleep · 2026Article
- Characterising the impact of shift work on diet and glucose variability in healthcare employees living with type 2 diabetes: The Shift-Diabetes study.Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association · 2026Article
- Health Implications of Shift Work in Airline Pilots and Cabin Crew: A Narrative Review and Pilot Study Findings.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Shift Work, Shifted Diets: An Observational Follow-Up Study on Diet Quality and Sustainability among Healthcare Workers on Night Shifts.Nutrients · 2024Observational
- Dietary taste patterns and diet quality of female nurses around the night shift.European journal of nutrition · 2024Observational
- Article
- Snacking among shiftwork nurses related to non-optimal dietary intake.Journal of advanced nursing · 2022Article
- Mistimed restricted feeding disrupts circadian rhythms of male mating behavior and female preovulatory LH surges in mice.Hormones and behavior · 2022Article
- CrossTalk opposing view: Insufficient sleep is not responsible for increased risk of metabolic disease in shift workers.The Journal of physiology · 2022Article
- Review
- Effects of Maternal Nightshift Work on Evening Energy Intake, Diet Quality and Meal Timing in the Family: An Observational Study.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2021Article
- Timing and Composition of Last Meal before Bedtime Affect Sleep Parameters of Night Workers.Clocks & sleep · 2021Article
- Mediterranean Diet Adherence and Eating Disorders in Spanish Nurses with Shift Patterns: A Cross-Sectional Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Article
- The Future of Shift Work: Circadian Biology Meets Personalised Medicine and Behavioural Science.Frontiers in nutrition · 2020Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Nightshift work is associated with adverse health outcomes, which may be related to eating during the biological night, when circadian rhythms and food intake are misaligned. Nurses often undertake nightshift work, and we aimed to investigate patterns of energy distribution and dietary intake across 14 days in 20 UK National Health Service (NHS) nurses working rotational shifts. We hypothesised that the proportion of daily energy consumed during the nightshift would increase over consecutive nights. Primary and secondary outcome measures included intakes of energy and macronutrients. Our results show that nurses consumed the same total daily energy on nightshifts and non-nightshifts, but redistributed energy to the nightshift period in increasing proportions with a significant difference between Night 1 and 2 in the proportion of total daily energy consumed (26.0 ± 15.7% vs. 33.5 ± 20.2%, mean ± SD;
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.