Centre for Mental Health, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia.
Centre for Social Impact, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia.
Front Public Health. 2022 Aug 10;10:936736. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.936736. eCollection 2022.
Poor sleep has significant impacts on both mental and physical well-being. This is especially the case for shift workers who rely on good sleep practices to manage the disruption caused by their working conditions. In recent years there has been a proliferation of sleep-focused mobile phone applications, some of which may be suitable for use by shift workers. There is limited evidence however, on whether these applications are sufficient in managing the sleep needs of the early start shift working population (i.e., those whose work schedules begin pre-dawn). This scoping review aims to identify and discuss peer-reviewed literature on mobile sleep applications used by early start shift workers for sleep-self management. Four databases (Scopus, EBSCOhost, CINAHL and PsycInfo) were searched for relevant literature using a pre-determined search string. The initial search using the term returned no papers, however a broadened search on shift work in general found 945 papers for title and abstract screening, of which 21 were deemed eligible for full text screening. Two of these papers met the inclusion criteria for this review. The results highlight, firstly, the paucity of research on the use of mobile phone applications for sleep self-management amongst early start shift workers, and secondly, the need for further research on the effectiveness of mobile applications for sleep self-management amongst shift workers in general. A working definition of early start shift work that can be used to stimulate research in this understudied population of shift workers is also proposed.
睡眠质量差会对身心健康产生重大影响。对于依赖良好睡眠习惯来应对工作条件带来的干扰的轮班工人来说，尤其如此。近年来，出现了大量专注于睡眠的手机应用程序，其中一些可能适合轮班工人使用。然而，关于这些应用程序是否足以满足早起轮班工人（即那些工作时间在黎明前开始的工人）的睡眠需求，证据有限。本范围综述旨在确定并讨论早起轮班工人用于自我睡眠管理的移动睡眠应用程序的同行评审文献。使用预先确定的搜索字符串在四个数据库（Scopus、EBSCOhost、CINAHL 和 PsycInfo）中搜索相关文献。使用术语“shift work”进行的初步搜索没有返回任何论文，但是对一般轮班工作的广泛搜索发现了 945 篇标题和摘要筛选论文，其中 21 篇被认为符合全文筛选标准。其中两篇论文符合本综述的纳入标准。研究结果首先突出了在早起轮班工人中，使用手机应用程序进行自我睡眠管理的研究很少，其次，需要进一步研究移动应用程序在一般轮班工人中的睡眠自我管理的有效性。还提出了一个可以用于激发对这一研究不足的轮班工人群体研究的早期开始轮班工作的工作定义。
