工作时间,周末工作,非标准的工作时间表,睡眠量和质量:来自英国家庭纵向研究的结果
Gillian Weston1, Afshin Zilanawala2, Elizabeth Webb3
1ESRC International Centre for Lifecourse Studies, Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 6BT, UK. gillian.weston.14@ucl.ac.uk.
BMC public health
|January 27, 2024
概括
长时间工作,周末或非标准时间表与英国工人的睡眠不良和睡眠障碍有关. 这些发现凸显了雇主需要改善工作安排,以改善健康和生产力.
科学领域:
- 职业健康 职业健康 职业健康
- 睡眠科学 睡眠科学
- 劳动社会学工作的社会学.
背景情况:
- 不典型的临时工作模式,包括长时间工作,周末工作和非标准时间表,在英国越来越普遍.
- 对于这些模式如何影响英国工人睡眠的理解有限,尽管睡眠与健康和生产力有关.
- 睡眠不足会导致不良健康结果,降低工作场所的生产力和经济成本.
研究的目的:
- 调查非典型的时间工作模式与英国工人的睡眠时间和睡眠障碍之间的联系.
- 分析长/短的工作时间,周末工作和非标准时间表对睡眠结果的影响.
- 探索这些协会中潜在的性别差异.
主要方法:
- 利用回归模型分析了来自英国25,000多名就业人员 (2012-2017) 的数据.
- 研究了三种类型的非典型工作模式:每周工作时间 (长/短),周末工作和非标准时间表.
- 根据潜在的混因素和心理社会工作因素进行调整.
主要成果:
- 与每周工作35-40小时相比,每周工作55个小时以上与睡眠短暂 (<7小时) 和睡眠障碍有关.
- 周末工作和非标准时间表与睡眠短暂,睡眠长 (>8小时) 和睡眠障碍有关.
- 在非典型的工作模式和睡眠之间的关联中观察到一些性别差异.
结论:
- 雇主和政策制定者应该承认休息和恢复的重要性.
- 工作时间和安排需要改进,以支持工人的健康和生产力.
- 应考虑为非典型的临时工作模式的工人提供适当的补偿.
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