Korean J Psychosom Med.  2014 Dec;22(2):79-86. 10.0000/kjpm.2014.22.2.79.

Psychosomatic Symptoms of Rotating Shift and Daytime Working Nurses in a General Hospital

• Kim BJ
• Choi MR
• Kim TH
• Kim HW
• Eun HJ

• KMID: 2071066
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.0000/kjpm.2014.22.2.79

Abstract

OBJECTIVES
Shift work disorder occurs when you have difficulties adjusting to a work schedule that takes place during a time which most people sleep. Some people may have diverse psychosomatic symptoms, such as sleep problems, depression, anxiety, and headaches even after the shift work schedule ends. The aims of this study are to compare difference of psychosomatic symptoms between rotating shift and daytime working nurse groups.
METHODS
Volunteer nurses working in a general hospital were recruited in a general hospital. We collected sociodemographic data. We used questionnaires for headache type, headache frequency, and VAS(Visual Analog Scale) for headache intensity, BDI(Beck depression Inventory) and GSAQ(Global Sleep Assessment Questionnaire). We used Mann-Whitney test and Chi-square test for hypothesis testing.
RESULTS
Data collected from 84 women nurses. Rotating shift(N=37) working nurses showed younger, more unmarried, and shorter work periods than daytime working nurses (N=47). Also rotating shift group showed more problems of headache, insomnia, excessive daytime sleepiness, depression and anxiety than daytime group. The above results were statistically significant.
CONCLUSIONS
The rotating shift work women nurses produced more headache, insomnia, excessive daytime sleepiness, depression, and anxiety than daytime working ones.

Keyword

Shift work; Women nurse; Psychosomatic symptoms

MeSH Terms

Anxiety
Appointments and Schedules
Depression
Female
Headache
Hospitals, General*
Humans
Questionnaires
Single Person
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders
Volunteers