Citation

Chaouch N, Mechergui N, Aissi W, Essid D, Khemila T, Ladhari N. Sante Publique 2019; 31(5): 623-631.

Vernacular Title

Effets du travail en horaires alternés sur la qualité de vie et la vigilance en Tunisie.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, SFSP)

DOI

10.3917/spub.195.0623

PMID

32372601

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Alternate work is known to cause physical and mental health disorders for employees that can alter their quality of life and sleep.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this research was to evaluate workers quality of life and sleep in situations of alternate work.

RESULTS: In total, 391 workers answered the questionnaire. According to the type of schedule, 320 employees worked alternately on a 2×8 shift schedule and 71 worked on a permanent night shift schedule. The group of employees working at night had a better quality of life than the group of employees working in 2×8 in terms of both their physical and mental scores (P < 10-3). Type 2×8 workers were found to have excessive daytime sleepiness as compared to those on fixed night schedules.

CONCLUSIONS: Shortly, we can deduce from this study that alternating day shift work causes a deterioration of workers' quality of life of and generates sleep disorders..

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