Shift Work and Sleep Quality Among Urban Police Officers

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• Alternative Title:
  J Occup Environ Med
• Personal Author:
  Fekedulegn, Desta ; Burchfiel, Cecil M. ; Charles, Luenda E. ; Hartley, Tara A. ; Andrew, Michael E. ; Violanti, John M.
• Description:
  Objective
  
  The aim of the study was to examine association of shift work with sleep quality in police officers.
  
  Methods
  
  Data were obtained from the Buffalo Cardio-Metabolic Occupational Police Stress study (n =363). An electronic work history database was used to define shift as day, afternoon, or night for three durations: past month, 1 year, and 15 years. Sleep quality was determined using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index.
  
  Results
  
  The overall prevalence of poor sleep quality was 54%; 44% for day, 60% for afternoon, and 69% for night shift. Poor sleep quality was 70% more prevalent among night-shift officers (P <0.001) and 49% higher among those on the afternoon shift (P =0.003) relative to officers working on the day shift.
  
  Conclusions
  
  Night and evening work schedules are associated with elevated prevalence of poor sleep quality among police officers.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adult Aged Cross-Sectional Studies Female Humans Male Middle Aged New York Personnel Staffing And Scheduling Police Prevalence Sleep Sleep Wake Disorders Surveys And Questionnaires Urban Population Work Schedule Tolerance

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• Source:
  J Occup Environ Med. 58(3):e66-e71
• Pubmed ID:
  26949891
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4829798
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R01 OH010807/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  58
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:4400c326734a933d3746f3ad2e12536cdd7fb55ea37e0f0939532eccb65de9e0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/38933/cdc_38933_DS1.pdf
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