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Work times and recovery from work - Article: shift work: consequences and management

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The problems with shift work are organized in three factors:

Circadian factors
Sleep factors
Social/psychological/domestic factors

Clinical intolerance to shift work:

The existence and intensity of sleep alterations, persisting fatigue, changes in behavior, digestive troubles and use of sleeping pills

24-h average of circadian rhythms

the 24-h arithmetic averages of several circadian rhythms have been shown to alter in shift workers. Shift workers took longer to do their jobs than day-working counterparts. They also show less other claims. The 24-h arithmetic average of negative moods and fatigue are better for shift workers with high tolerance

What are the psychosocial/psychological problems?

Disturbances and dysfunctions -> has impact on family life
More psychosomatic and psychoneurotic complaint
Depression, helplessness and stress

Counter measures for rhtyhm entertainment:

Shift systems: night shift alone or as a commponent of the two shift or three shift system is the worst.

Rapid rotation decreases desynchronization or the organization, of sleep patterns, and thus recovery occurs more rapidly

Direction of rotation: clockwise rotation was notices to be better tolerated by the shift workers
Naps
Bright light therapy to eliminate circadian maladjustment among night workers