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Individual differences in tolerance to shift work – A systematic review
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This paper systematically review literature published investigating the relation between individual differences such as age, gender, personality, morningness/eveningness as well as biological variables and different measures of shift work tolerance from 1998 till 2009 to indicate that young age, male gender, low scores on morningness, high scores on flexibility andLow scores on languidity are related to higher shift workolerance.About:
This article is published in Sleep Medicine Reviews.The article was published on 2011-08-01. It has received 387 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Personality & Shift work.read more
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Influence of new hire transition workload on insomnia in nurses
TL;DR: It is suggested that additional support should be provided to non-new nurses to assist them in the new hire transition to mitigate the risk of insomnia.
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Perceptions on Fixed Night Shift System and Turnover Intention of General Hospital Nurses
TL;DR: The results indicate that the most important factor for a desirable fixed night shift system to decrease nurses’ turnover intention is economic and administrative support according to the needs of the nurses.
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Intraindividual association between shift work and risk of drinking problems: data from the Finnish Public Sector Cohort
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used data from a large occupational cohort to examine the association between shift work and different types of drinking behavior, including at-risk drinking and high-intensity drinking.
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Is there an association between shift work and having a metabolic syndrome? Results from a population based study of 27 485 people
TL;DR: Obesity, high triglycerides, and low concentrations of HDL cholesterol seem to cluster together more often in shift workers than in day workers, which might indicate an association between shift work and the metabolic syndrome.
The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study
Rahman Shiri,Svetlana Solovieva,Kirsti Husgafvel-Pursiainen,Simo Taimela,Risto Huupponen,Jorma Viikari,Olli T. Raitakari,Eira Viikari-Juntura +7 more
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PER3 Polymorphism Predicts Sleep Structure and Waking Performance
Antoine U. Viola,Simon Archer,LM James,John A. Groeger,June C. Lo,Debra J. Skene,Malcolm von Schantz,Derk-Jan Dijk +7 more
TL;DR: The data show that this polymorphism in PER3 predicts individual differences in the sleep-loss-induced decrement in performance and that this differential susceptibility may be mediated by its effects on sleep homeostasis.
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Metabolic disturbances in male workers with rotating three-shift work. Results of the WOLF study
TL;DR: A significant association between shift work and lipid disturbances (i.e. low HDL-cholesterol and high triglyceride levels) was found and any association with hyperglycaemia was found.
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Towards a Predictive Test of Adjustment to Shift Work
TL;DR: It is concluded that it may prove feasible to develop a questionnaire that would predict the degree to which people's rhythms would adjust to shift work, and that flexibility of sleeping habits and the ability to overcome drowsiness should be components of such a questionnaire.