The scope of this study was to evaluate the sleep/wake cycle in shift work nurses, as well as their sleep quality and chronotype. The sleep/wake cycle was evaluated by keeping a sleep diary for a total of 60 nurses with a mean age of 31.76 years. The Horne & Östberg Questionnaire (1976) for the chronotype and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) for sleep quality were applied. The results ...

OBJECTIVES Direct cuff pressure to the tracheal wall can cause damage. This paper aimed to verify the effectiveness of nursing team training on cuff pressure control. METHODS A retrospective survey was initially made on the records of cuff pressure measurements from January 2007 to June 2008 and the inadequacy percent was verified. Next, a nursing team training program was provided involving ...

BACKGROUND According to the phase-shift hypothesis for winter depression, morning light (which causes a circadian phase advance) should be more antidepressant than evening light (which causes a delay). Although no studies have shown evening light to be more antidepressant than morning light, investigations have shown either no difference or morning light to be superior. The present study assess...

Anxiety is a feeling of worry and excessive concern against obscure danger about inner or outer threat, which occur in form of ambiguous fear. It finally causes physical problem and impairs social and occupational functions. Anxiety is the most common mental disorder. Nursing totally is a difficult job and because of their working environmental and activity, they always encountering with damage...

This article presents a study on the impact of shiftwork and chronotype on the perception of the work conditions, workload and adjustment to shiftwork by the workers of two sectors of a flexible packaging manufacturer, which operates in three fixed shifts. The workers are allocated in one of the shifts (morning, evening and night shifts) without evaluation of their chronotype and/or social need...

Sleep data are gathered prior to administration of the well-known p-beauty contest game. Additionally, using a validated morningness-eveningness preference measure, morning-type and evening-type subjects are identified and randomly matched or mismatched into morning or evening experiment sessions. This design allows examination of the effects of voluntary sleep restriction and optimal/suboptima...