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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2020

Nurses and Night Shifts: Poor Sleep Quality Exacerbates Psychomotor Performance.

Marco Di Muzio, Giulia Diella, Emanuele Di Simone, Luana Novelli, Valentina Alfonsi, Serena Scarpelli, Ludovica Annarumma, Federico Salfi, Mariella Pazzaglia, Anna Maria Giannini and 1 more

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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11 authors.

Marco Di MuzioDepartment of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Giulia DiellaDepartment of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Emanuele Di SimoneDepartment of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
Luana NovelliDepartment of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Valentina AlfonsiIRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy.
Serena ScarpelliIRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy.
Ludovica AnnarummaDepartment of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Federico SalfiDepartment of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy.
Mariella PazzagliaDepartment of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Anna Maria GianniniDepartment of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Luigi De GennaroDepartment of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In Europe, 40% of health-care employees are involved in shift work. The altered sleep/wake rhythm of night-shift nurses is also associated with deteriorated cognitive efficiency. In this study, we examine the effects of the night shift on psychomotor performance, sleepiness, and tiredness in a large sample of shift-working nurses and evaluated if poor sleep quality, sex, age, or years on the job could impact on a better adaptation to shift work. Eighty-six nurses with 8-h-rapidly-rotating-shifts were evaluated at the end of three shifts (morning/afternoon/night) for sleepiness and tiredness. Sleepiness, as measured by the Karolinska Sleepiness Scale, and tiredness, as measured by the Tiredness Symptoms Scale, were more pronounced after the night shift. These increases were paralleled by lower attentional performance on the psychomotor vigilance task (PVT) after the night shift. While sex, age, and years on the job did not affect PVT performance after the night shift, lower sleep quality (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality, PSQI > 5) was associated with decreased performance. The high prevalence of altered sleep quality showed that nurses, and shift workers in general, are at risk for a poor sleep quality. The evaluation of sleep quality through PSQI could represent a rapid, inexpensive tool to assess health-care workers assigned to rotating night shifts or to evaluate nurses who coped poorly with night-shift work.

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poor sleep qualitypsychomotor performanceshift worksleepinesssustained attention

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PMCPMC7591770

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