Association between shift work and poor sleep quality in an Asian multi-ethnic working population: A cross-sectional study

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 15; no. 3; p. e0229693
• Main Authors: Thach, Thuan-Quoc, Mahirah, Dhiya, Dunleavy, Gerard, Zhang, Yichi, Nazeha, Nuraini, Rykov, Yuri, Nah, Audrey, Roberts, Adam Charles, Christopoulos, George I, Soh, Chee-Kiong, Car, Josip
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 04.03.2020; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adult; Asian People; Biology and Life Sciences; Cardiovascular disease; Cross-Sectional Studies; Efficiency; Employees; Ethnicity; Exercise; Female; Females; Health promotion; Health sciences; Humans; Labor force; Logistic Models; Male; Males; Medicine; Medicine and Health Sciences; Middle Aged; Minority & ethnic groups; Occupational health; Odds Ratio; Participation; People and Places; Physical Sciences; Population; Population studies; Prevalence; Quality; Shift work; Shift Work Schedule - adverse effects; Shift Work Schedule - psychology; Singapore - epidemiology; Sleep; Sleep Wake Disorders - epidemiology; Sleep Wake Disorders - etiology; Sleep Wake Disorders - physiopathology; Social Sciences; Sociodemographics; Surveys and Questionnaires; Workers; Working conditions; Young Adult; Singapore

We aimed to examine the association between shift work and sleep quality in a diverse occupational type. This was a cross-sectional study of self-reported sleep quality in 424 workers aged ≥21 using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). We divided workers into two categories based on their PSQI...