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Influence of Sleep Characteristic Changes on Nurses' Quality of Life during Their Transition to Practice: A
1Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Korea.
Aim:
To explore the effect of changes in sleep characteristics on changes in quality of life during the transition period of new graduate nurses.
Background:
Sleep problems among nurses are associated with negative physical and psychological consequences.
Methods:
This prospective cohort study was conducted at a tertiary hospital in South Korea. Participants included 88 newly graduated nurses. Data were collected twice, prior to shift work and after 4 months of working as a nurse, via online structured self-report questionnaires created using Survey Monkey from March 2018 to February 2020. A generalized linear mixed model was used to analyze the influence of changes in sleep characteristics on quality of life.
Results:
A generalized linear mixed model showed that changes in the subjective quality of sleep, subjective health perception, and daytime dysfunction influenced quality of life changes during the transition. This implies that deterioration already existed. From their undergraduate period to four months after they began working as nurses, a significant decrease was observed in the quality of sleep. Participants' quality of life significantly decreased.
Conclusions:
Changes in the quality of life of new graduate nurses may show deterioration with a significant drop in subjective sleep quality. Institutions should improve existing work adaptation programs provided during new graduate nurses' transition to practice by including information on changes in nurses' health caused by changes in sleep characteristics and sleep quality.
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