对夜班工作的循环适应与较高的REM睡眠持续时间有关
Iona Z Zimberg1, Suzanne Ftouni1, Michelle Magee1
1Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health and School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Sleep health
|November 1, 2023
概括
部分昼夜适应的夜班工作者在白天恢复睡眠期间经历了更长的REM睡眠. 这凸显了如何将睡眠-清醒周期与身体对齐.
科学领域:
- 睡眠医学 睡眠医学
- 时间生物学 时间生物学
- 职业健康 职业健康 职业健康
背景情况:
- 夜间工作破坏了自然的睡眠-觉醒周期和昼夜节律.
- 夜间工作者的昼夜适应程度可以显著变化.
- 了解昼夜适应如何影响睡眠架构对于轮班工人的健康至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究不同程度的昼夜适应夜间工作对睡眠架构的影响.
- 为了确定部分与不适应的昼夜节律如何影响模拟夜班后的睡眠模式.
主要方法:
- 34名夜班工人接受了模拟的夜班,随后进行了聚睡眠学记录的恢复睡眠.
- 循环阶段使用尿路6 - 硫胺胺 (aMT6s) 节律缩期进行评估.
- 参与者被分为"不适应" (睡前缩) 和"部分适应" (睡前缩) 组.
主要成果:
- 与不适应组相比,在模拟轮班前一周,部分适应组的睡眠时间较长.
- 轮班后的两组总睡眠时间相似,但部分适应组的快速眼动 (REM) 睡眠持续时间明显更长.
- 在恢复睡眠的前5小时内,部分适应组的REM睡眠积累量在恢复睡眠的前5小时内更高.
结论:
- 对夜班工作的部分昼夜适应与白天恢复睡眠期间REM睡眠持续时间的增加有关.
- 这些发现强调了睡眠-清醒周期和夜间工作者的昼夜节律节律器之间的关系的重要性.
- 这些结果对管理睡眠质量和随后的轮班工作时间表中的警觉性有影响.
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