Contributing influences of work environment on sleep quantity and quality of nursing assistants in long-term care facilities: a cross-sectional study

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• Personal Author:
  Gore R ; McEnany GP ; Punnett, Laura ; Zhang Y
• Description:
  The effect of shift work on nurses' sleep is well-studied, but there are other challenging aspects of health care work that might also affect the sleep of direct caregivers. This study examined the influence of the long-term care work environment on sleep quantity and quality of nursing assistants. A cross-sectional survey collected data from 650 nursing assistants in 15 long-term care facilities; 46% reported short sleep duration and 23% reported poor sleep quality. A simple additive index of the number of beneficial work features (up to 7) was constructed for analysis with Poisson regression. With each unit increase of beneficial work features, nursing assistants were 7% less likely to report short sleep duration and 17% less likely to report poor sleep quality. These results suggest that effective workplace interventions should address a variety of work stressors, not only work schedule arrangements, in order to improve nursing assistants' sleep health. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Personnel Occupational Health Safety Shift Work Schedule Sleep Stress, Psychological Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Job Stress Job Stress Long-term Care Long Work Hours Nurses Nursing Assistants Shift Work Sleep Quality Sleep Quantity Total Worker Health TWH Work Environment

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• ISSN:
  0197-4572
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  13-18
• Volume:
  37
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20049328
• Citation:
  Geriatr Nurs 2016 Jan-Feb; 37(1):13-18
• Contact Point Address:
  Yuan Zhang, PhD, School of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 113 Wilder Street, Lowell, MA 01854
• Email:
  Yuan_Zhang@uml.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• NORA Priority Area:
  Healthcare and Social Assistance
• Performing Organization:
  University of Massachusetts, Lowell
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20060701
• Source Full Name:
  Geriatric Nursing
• End Date:
  20210831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:eb8bc463e6683b447e51e1524c5c4389d2e3728aa93e9221d67ab5f6f0323d6563d068baa8f732699e15cbbef3a8eb066c6ad066f6067dd1f75ff83ab71c305e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/203799/cdc_203799_DS1.pdf
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