Diet quality and sleep quality among day and night shift nurses

Abstract

Deliberate health initiatives and wellness programmes specifically targeting nurses are needed to increase knowledge about maintaining a healthy lifestyle while working as a nurse, whether it is day or night shift.

The association between night shift work and nutrition patterns among nurses: a literature review

“…The results were fully consistent with respect to coffee (caffeine) consumption, indicating a more frequent or higher coffee consumption among the nursing staff working night shifts [10,11,14,19,20]. Coffee consumption seems to be related to a longer duration and a higher frequency of night shift work [14,19].…”

“…A population of 749 Norwegian nurses working night shifts was investigated by Saksvik-Lehouillier et al [14]. The study population included 322 women with less than 1 year of experience in night shift work and 427 with over 6 years of respective experience.…”

“…Diet quality and night shift work were evaluated among 103 hospital nurses in the USA (53 working night shifts) [26]. Diet History Questionnaire II (DHQII) developed by the National Cancer Institute was used to ask questions about the frequency and amount of consumption of 134 food items and 8 dietary supplements over a period of one month preceding the study.…”

Nurses and health‐promoting self‐care: Do we practice what we preach?

“…Personal characteristics such as body mass index (BMI) or age may influence health behaviours. Nurses with higher BMIs reported consuming less healthy diets than nurses with lower BMIs (Beebe, Chang, Kress, & Mattfeldt-Beman, 2017). There is conflicting evidence regarding age, as increasing age has been associated with increases as well as decreases in health-promoting behaviours (Kurnat-Thoma, El-Banna, Oakcrum, & Tyroler, 2017;McCarthy, Wills, & Crowley, 2018;Perry et al, 2018;Thacker, Stavarski, Brancato, Flay, & Greenawald, 2016).…”

Calidad de la dieta del personal de salud de un hospital chileno según el índice de alimentación saludable

“…El consumo de alimentos de los diferentes grupos alimentarios entre hombres y mujeres se presenta en la tabla 3. Otros estudios aplicados a trabajadores de la salud, tampoco lograron encontrar resultados que permitieran asociar modificaciones significativas en la alimentación y el trabajar bajo un sistema por turnos (38,39). En contraposición, un estudio desarrollado en enfermeras en Japón, si demostró una asociación estadísticamente significativa entre las participantes que trabajaron en turnos rotativos y una dieta deficiente (40).…”