Short Sleep Duration Among Workers – United States, 2010

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• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Personal Author:
  Luckhaupt, Sara E.
• Description:
  Insufficient sleep can have serious and sometimes fatal consequences for fatigued workers and others around them. For example, an estimated 20% of vehicle crashes are linked to drowsy driving. The National Sleep Foundation recommends that healthy adults sleep 7.9 hours per day. To assess the prevalence of short sleep duration among workers, CDC analyzed data from the 2010 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). The analysis compared sleep duration by age group, race/ethnicity, sex, marital status, education, and employment characteristics. Overall, 30.0% of civilian employed U.S. adults (approximately 40.6 million workers) reported an average sleep duration of ≤ 6 hours per day. The prevalence of short sleep duration (≤ 6 hours per day) varied by industry of employment (range: 24.1%.41.6%), with a significantly higher rate of short sleep duration among workers in manufacturing (34.1%) compared with all workers combined. Among all workers, those who usually worked the night shift had a much higher prevalence of short sleep duration (44.0%, representing approximately 2.2 million night shift workers) than those who worked the day shift (28.8%, representing approximately 28.3 million day shift workers). An especially high prevalence of short sleep duration was reported by night shift workers in the transportation and warehousing (69.7%) and health-care and social assistance (52.3%) industries. Targeted interventions, such as evidence-based shift system designs that improve sleep opportunities and evidence-based training programs on sleep and working hours tailored for managers and employees, should be implemented to protect the health and safety of workers, their coworkers, and the public. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Fatigue Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety Shift Work Schedule Sleep Sleep Initiation And Maintenance Disorders Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Demographic-characteristics Employee-health Intervention Manufacturing Occupations Shift Work Shift Workers Sleep-deprivation Sleep-disorders Statistical-analysis Surveillance-programs Training Worker-health Worker Safety

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• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  5 pdf pages
• Volume:
  61
• Issue:
  16
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20040695
• Citation:
  MMWR 2012 Apr; 61(16):281-285
• Email:
  pks8@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• NORA Priority Area:
  Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a49a747cc7d3867b4909b3cd0f59595c9bc0d40d5eddafa37213f5e6264f5570e4d2e55eedbe074a924cd629e29fe8a620b592f86e17e33025a87c8f0e149023
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/183291/cdc_183291_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 320.76 KB ]