Department of Psychology, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom.
J Occup Environ Med. 2010 Apr;52(4):392-8. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e3181d8d9e4.
With the workforces in industrialized countries getting older, this study sought to determine how shiftworking affects sleep in later life.
Longitudinal data were collected from a large sample in 1996, 2001, and 2006 from employees who were 32, 42, 52, and 62 years old in 1996.
The effects of shift work were most apparent in the early and middle years of working life. Former shiftworkers reported more sleep problems than both current shiftworkers and those who had never worked shifts. Giving up shift work off-set the age-related accumulation of sleep problems, with the net result that former shiftworkers showed little or no change in sleep problems over the three measurement occasions.
The effects of shift work on sleep may persist for a long time after giving up shift work but they are not permanent.
随着工业化国家劳动力年龄的增长,本研究旨在确定轮班工作如何影响晚年的睡眠。
1996 年、2001 年和 2006 年,从年龄分别为 32、42、52 和 62 岁的员工中,收集了来自大样本的纵向数据。
轮班工作的影响在工作生涯的早期和中期最为明显。与当前轮班工人和从未轮班工作的工人相比,前轮班工人报告的睡眠问题更多。放弃轮班工作缓解了与年龄相关的睡眠问题积累,其净结果是,前轮班工人在三次测量中睡眠问题几乎没有变化或没有变化。
轮班工作对睡眠的影响可能在停止轮班工作后很长一段时间内仍然存在,但并非永久性的。