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The Effects of Age and Shiftwork on Perceived Sleep Problems

Philip Tucker Orcid Logo, S Folkard, D Ansiau, J-C Marquié

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Volume: 53, Issue: 7, Pages: 794 - 798

Swansea University Author: Philip Tucker Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1097/JOM.0b013e318221c64c

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<p><em>Objectives</em>: With workforces in industrialised countries getting older, the study examined how shiftworking affects sleep in later life.</p><p><em>Method</em>: Longitudinal data were collected in 1996, 2001 and 2006 from a large sample of employee...

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Published in: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
ISSN: 1076-2752
Published: 2011
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa6740
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Abstract: <p><em>Objectives</em>: With workforces in industrialised countries getting older, the study examined how shiftworking affects sleep in later life.</p><p><em>Method</em>: Longitudinal data were collected in 1996, 2001 and 2006 from a large sample of employees who were 32, 42, 52, and 62 years old in 1996.</p><p><em>Results</em>: Effects of shiftwork were most apparent in middle aged participants, becoming less apparent in later years when people tended to leave shiftwork.  However, a group of younger former shiftworkers reported more sleep problems than those who had never worked shifts. Giving up shiftwork off-set a trend for sleep problems to accumulate over time, with the net result of no change in sleep problems following cessation of shiftwork.</p><p><em>Conclusions</em>: Poor sleep quality is a temporary consequence of shiftwork for some, while for others it is a cause of shiftwork intolerance.</p>
Item Description: This was one of the few published longitudinal studies to examine whether the effects of shiftwork on sleep persist after exiting shiftwork. Uniquely, it examined sleep complaints from different age cohorts and distinguished between former and current shiftworkers, and workers who had never worked shifts. (Percentage contribution: 75%, including design and conduct of the analysis, and writing up of the work).
College: Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences
Issue: 7
Start Page: 794
End Page: 798

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