Eighty-five Dutch railway traffic controllers were studied before and after a change in their continuous shift schedule. The original schedule was slowly rotating. while the experimental schedule had a moderately rapid rotating morning and evening shift, but a slowly rotating night shift. Before and 6 months after the change, questionnaires and a diary were filled in. A decrease in sleep complaints and weekly workload was found. No reduction in the amount of complaints regarding leisure time in the evening was registered; only an increase in satisfaction with leisure time in the evening.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.