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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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<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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description <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>
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