| Summary: | 碩士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 公共衛生學研究所 === 98 === Aim and objective: The aim of this study was to explore the detrimental effects of working a rotating shift on quality of sleep, mental health and family function.
Background: Shift work is an important source of disturbances in the health and well-being of nurses. However, nursing services must be available on a 24-hour basis, making shift work a necessity. Sleep disorder, mental health and work/family conflict tend to occur among nurses typically working on rotating shifts. Although many studies related to nurses’ sleep quality have been carried out in the West, few have investigated factors linked to nurses’ sleep quality, mental health and family function in Taiwan.
Methods: This is a cross-sectional research design. A purposive sample of 1467 nurses between the ages of 20-45 was recruited from Kaohsiung City Nurses Association and Kaohsiung County Nurses Association using a mail-questionnaire during August 2008 to July 2009. The self-administered questionnaire distributed to participants incorporated the demographic data, the Chinese Health Questionnaire (CHQ), the Chinese version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and the Family Apgar Index.
Results: We found that shift-work seemed to have detrimental effect on sleep quality, health quality and family function. After adjusting for other confounding factors, nurses with night-shift had significantly worse score in evaluating sleep quality, mental and physical health quality and family function compared to day-shift nurses.
Conclusions: We found shift-work, especially night-shift had detrimental effects on nurses’ health and family function but appropriate arrangement of work schedule might reduce such unhealthy influence.
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