The University of Alabama at Birmingham.
The University of Alabama.
Workplace Health Saf. 2021 Mar;69(3):134-140. doi: 10.1177/2165079920950255. Epub 2020 Sep 30.
Restorative sleep is essential for the level of cognitive performance required of truckers to drive safely. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to describe and explore sleep-related and safety decision-making among truck drivers.
Flyers and snowball sampling were used to recruit truck drivers into the study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to determine personal and professional influences on sleep and safety decision-making and preferences for receiving health information. Thematic analysis was conducted to generate descriptions of participants' experiences.
The sample consisted of 10 White males with a mean of 22 years of truck-driving experience. Weather conditions and drowsiness were the most commonly described conditions that required sleep decision-making by the participants. Four themes impacting sleep- and safety-related decision-making emerged including sentinel events, evolving driver characteristics, relationships, and company-level factors.
CONCLUSION/APPLICATION TO PRACTICE: Findings from this study suggest that there are both internal and external factors influencing sleep and safety decision-making among truck drivers. Personal relationships with important others, such as family members, and professional relationships with company dispatchers were important influences among participants. During encounters with truck drivers, occupational health nurses should assess sleep quality and quantity and review healthy sleep hygiene strategies with them and their family members, if they are available. Future larger studies are necessary to inform the development of interventions and company policies to promote healthy sleep among truck drivers.
恢复性睡眠对于卡车司机安全驾驶所需的认知表现水平至关重要。本定性描述性研究的目的是描述和探讨卡车司机的睡眠相关和安全决策。
使用传单和雪球抽样招募卡车司机参与研究。进行半结构化访谈，以确定个人和职业对睡眠和安全决策的影响，以及对健康信息的偏好。采用主题分析生成参与者体验的描述。
该样本由 10 名白人男性组成，平均有 22 年的卡车驾驶经验。天气条件和困倦是参与者最常描述的需要睡眠决策的情况。有四个主题影响睡眠和安全相关的决策，包括警戒事件、不断变化的驾驶员特征、关系和公司层面的因素。
结论/对实践的应用：这项研究的结果表明，有内部和外部因素影响卡车司机的睡眠和安全决策。与重要他人的个人关系，如家庭成员，以及与公司调度员的专业关系，是参与者的重要影响因素。在与卡车司机接触时，职业健康护士应评估他们的睡眠质量和数量，并与他们及其家庭成员一起审查健康的睡眠卫生策略，如果有的话。未来需要进行更大规模的研究，为促进卡车司机健康睡眠的干预措施和公司政策的制定提供信息。
