Tonight’s Sleep Predicts Tomorrow’s Fatigue: A Daily Diary Study of Long-Term Care Employees with Nonwork Caregiving Roles

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• Personal Author:
  Almeida DM ; Buxton OM ; Crain T ; DePasquale N ; Zarit SH
• Description:
  Background and Objectives: Long-term care employees and employees with nonwork caregiving roles are at high risk for sleep problems and fatigue. Little is known, however, about relationships between sleep and fatigue among long-term care employees who occupy nonwork caregiving roles. This study examined whether longer sleep duration and better sleep quality reduce fatigue occurrence and severity within and between long-term care employees with nonwork caregiving roles, and investigated nonwork caregiving role occupancy as a moderator of these relationships. Research Design and Methods: The sample comprised 166 women working in U.S.-based nursing homes. All women had children aged 9-17 years and some also had nonwork caregiving responsibilities for adult relatives. Sleep (duration and quality) and fatigue (occurrence and severity) were assessed via telephone interviews for eight consecutive evenings. Multilevel modeling was used to examine within-person and between-person associations. Results: At the within-person level, nights characterized by longer-than-usual sleep duration or better-than-usual sleep quality were followed by days with lower odds of reporting fatigue; these same sleep characteristics predicted less severe next-day fatigue. At the between-person level, employees with better average sleep quality, but not longer sleep duration, had lower odds of experiencing fatigue. Relationships between sleep and fatigue were generally similar regardless of nonwork caregiving responsibilities for children or for both children and adults. Discussion and Implications: Findings suggest that tonight's sleep predicts tomorrow's fatigue. Given the serious and wide-ranging consequences of fatigue, sleep constitutes a worthwhile intervention target with potential benefits for employees, care recipients, and organizations. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Family Fatigue Health Personnel Occupational Health Safety Sleep Sleep Initiation And Maintenance Disorders Women Workload
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Double-duty Caregivers Behavior Patterns Children Families Health Care Workers Mental Fatigue Nursing Nursing Homes Performance Capability Physiological Fatigue Psychological Factors Sleep Deprivation Sleep Duration Sleep Quality Triple-duty Caregivers Work-life Balance Work Capacity

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• ISSN:
  0016-9013
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; North Carolina ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 8 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  59
• Issue:
  6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20058201
• Citation:
  Gerontologist 2019 Dec; 59(6):1065-1077
• Contact Point Address:
  Nicole DePasquale, PhD, Division of General Internal Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, NC Mutual Building, Suite 500, 411 West Chapel Hill Street, Durham, NC 27701
• Email:
  nicole.depasquale@duke.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2020
• Performing Organization:
  Portland State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050901
• Source Full Name:
  The Gerontologist
• End Date:
  20081130
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:20d4291a0533aecfe5d2597f194ae7a17a96650fa267ecc44728a9266be4d5fa837095147b486d9110154b4489ef1c5ef945a50ca5049ee9d0e08277c7a9b291
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/221336/cdc_221336_DS1.pdf
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