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ArticleSleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society2024

Feasibility, effectiveness, and acceptability of an afternoon-evening sleep schedule in older nightshift workers.

Laura K Barger, Yuan Zhang, Heidi M Lammers-van der Holst, Davina Snoep, Audra S Murphy, Brian Desnoyers, Jeanne F Duffy

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Article in Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Laura K BargerDivision of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Department of Medicine, Brigham Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8547-7331
Yuan ZhangSolomont School of Nursing, Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA.
Heidi M Lammers-van der HolstDivision of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Department of Medicine, Brigham Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Davina Snoep
Audra S MurphyDivision of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Department of Medicine, Brigham Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Brian DesnoyersDivision of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Department of Medicine, Brigham Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Jeanne F DuffyDivision of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Department of Medicine, Brigham Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Brigham and Women's Hospital · USErasmus MC · NLUniversity of Massachusetts Lowell · US

Funding

Impact of lifting work hour restrictions on first-year resident safety, health and well-beingR01OH011773 · OH · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI BARGER, LAURA K. · 2019 to 2022
$2.9M
NIOSH CDC HHS R01 OH011773
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Study Objectives: To explore the feasibility, effectiveness, and acceptability of an afternoon-evening sleep schedule in older (age 50-65 years) nightshift workers. Methods: We used a three-part strategy: a screening survey to identify individuals who said they could adopt an 8-hour afternoon-evening sleep schedule; a field study where daily diary and actigraphy data were collected during a baseline week and intervention week, with randomization to self-selected sleep, 8-hour afternoon-evening time in bed (TIB), or 8-hour self-selected TIB; and follow-up focus groups to understand the acceptability of the intervention. Results: Gender ( Conclusions: Spending 8 hours in bed between successive night shifts, initiated at both a self-selected time and in the afternoon-evening, increased the sleep duration of older shiftworkers, but most would not continue such a schedule on their own. Additional research is needed to find countermeasures for the reduced sleep duration experienced by most shiftworkers that are not only effective, but also compatible with shiftworkers' lifestyles.

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circadian misalignmenthealthcare workersnightshiftolder adultsshiftworksleep

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PMID38404951
PMCPMC10894508
OpenAlexW4391613766

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