Precarious Work Schedules and Sleep: A Study of Unionized Full-Time Workers

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• Personal Author:
  Cavallari, Jennifer M. ; Decker, Ragan E. ; Dugan, Alicia G. ; Garza, Jennifer L. ; Laguerre, Rick A. ; Lombardi, Caitlin M. ; Namazi, Sara ; Suleiman, Adekemi O. ; Zhang, Yuan
• Description:
  Unlike precarious employment which is temporary and insecure, with inadequate pay, benefits, and legal protections, precarious work schedules can affect workers with permanent full-time jobs in sectors where employment has historically been secure, well-compensated, and even unionized. Precarious work schedules - characterized by long shifts, non-daytime hours, intensity and unsocial work hours - are increasingly prevalent. Relations between precarious work schedules and poor health are not well understood, and less is known about how to attenuate this relation. We examined the indirect effects of precarious work schedules on fatigue and depressive symptoms through sleep quantity. Two moderators - schedule flexibility and sleep quality - were examined as buffers of these associations. Workers from the Departments of Correction and Transportation in a northeast state (N = 222) took surveys and reported on demographics, work schedule characteristics, schedule flexibility, sleep quality and quantity, fatigue, and depressive symptoms. Results revealed that precarious work schedules had indirect effects on fatigue and depressive symptoms through sleep quantity. Schedule flexibility moderated the relation between precarious work schedules and sleep quantity, such that workers with greater schedule flexibility had more hours of sleep. Sleep quality moderated the association between sleep quantity and fatigue and depressive symptoms, such that workers reported greater fatigue and depressive symptoms when they had poorer sleep quality. Findings have direct applicability for developing initiatives that enhance Total Worker Health® through individual and organizational changes. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Fatigue Labor Unions Mental Health Nervous System Occupational Health Safety Shift Work Sleep
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Depressive Symptoms Mental Health Precarious Work Schedules Schedule Flexibility Total Worker Health TWH Work Intervals Work Schedules
• ISSN:
  2367-0134
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Connecticut ; Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 3 ; Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  31 pdf pages
• Volume:
  6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20067474
• Citation:
  Occup Health Sci 2022 Jun; 6(2):247-277
• Contact Point Address:
  Alicia G. Dugan, Department of Medicine, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, 263 Farmington Ave, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA
• Email:
  adugan@uchc.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• Performing Organization:
  University of Connecticut Storrs
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational Health Science
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:791772ccfda48a363992e28c12c73296f4f625621b18524d6b2fc1178ffd68186be44eaa42602fde41094cec6f513f607435d7f0221d32d131b4d98761500bc1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/230787/cdc_230787_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.05 MB ]