Sleep, Sleepiness and Health Complaints in Police Officers: The Effects of a Flexible Shift System

Eriksen, Claire Anne; Kecklund, Göran

doi:10.2486/indhealth.45.279

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“…Kecklund et al (21) found that police officers evaluated a rapidly rotating shift system more positively than compressed shift systems with rapid rotating and frequent quick returns, but a higher number of days off. This is, however, in contrast to another study, where it was found that police officers with self-rostering both had more long periods with four consecutive days off and also more often chose to have only one day off compared to a rapidly rotating shift system (29). The difference is likely to be due to the difference in reference group between the two studies.…”

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Implementation of self-rostering (the PRIO-project): effects on working hours, recovery, and health

Garde

Albertsen

Nabe‐Nielsen

et al. 2012

Scand J Work Environ Health

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In this large, longitudinal intervention study on self-rostering, employees changed shift length and timing, but did not compromise most recommendations for acceptable shift work schedules. Positive consequences for recovery and health were observed. The effect could not be statistically explained by changes in actual working hours. Original article Scand J Work Environ Health. 2012;38(4): 314-326. doi:10.5271/sjweh.3306 Implementation of self-rostering (the PRIO project): effects on working hours, recovery, and health by Anne Helene Garde, PhD, 1 Karen Albertsen, PhD,2,3 Kirsten PhD, 2 Isabella Gomes Carneiro, Phd, 1 Jørgen Skotte, MSc Eng, 1 Sofie Mandrup Hansen, MSc, 1 Henrik Lund, Phd, 4 Helge Hvid, Phd,4 Åse Marie Hansen, PhD 1,2 Garde AH, Albertsen K, Nabe-Nielsen K, Carneiro IG, Skotte J, Hansen SM, Lund H, Hvid H, Hansen ÅM. Implementation of self-rostering (the PRIO project): effects on working hours, recovery, and health. Scand J Work Environ Health. 2012;38(4):314-326. doi:10.5271/sjweh.3306 Objectives The aim of this study was to (i) investigate the consequences of self-rostering for working hours, recovery, and health, and (ii) elucidate the mechanisms through which recovery and health are affected. AffiliationMethods Twenty eight workplaces were allocated to either an intervention or reference group. Intervention A encompassed the possibility to specify preferences for starting time and length of shift down to 15 minutes intervals. Interventions B and C included the opportunity to choose between a number of predefined duties. Questionnaires (N=840) on recovery and health and objective workplace reports of working hours (N=718) were obtained at baseline and 12 months later. The interaction term between intervention and time was tested in mixed models and multinomial logistic regression models. ResultsThe odds ratio (OR) of having short [OR 4.8, 95 % confidence interval (95% CI) 1.9-12.3] and long (OR 4.8, 95% CI 2.9-8.0) shifts increased in intervention A. Somatic symptoms (β= -0.10, 95% CI -0.19--0.02) and mental distress (β= -0.13, 95% CI -0.23--0.03) decreased, and sleep (β= 1.7, 95% CI 0.04-0.30) improved in intervention B, and need for recovery was reduced in interventions A (β= -0.17, 95% CI -0.29--0.04) and B (β= -0.17, 95% CI -0.27--0.07). There were no effects on recovery and health in intervention C, and overall, there were no detrimental effects on recovery or health. The benefits of the intervention were not related to changes in working hours and did not differ by gender, age, family type, degree of employment, or working hour arrangements. ConclusionsAfter implementation of self-rostering, employees changed shift length and timing but did not compromise most recommendations for acceptable shift work schedules. Positive consequences of self-rostering for recovery and health were observed, particularly in intervention B where worktime control increased but less extensively than intervention A. The effect could not be statistically explained by changes in actual working hours.Ke...

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Implementation of self-rostering (the PRIO-project): effects on working hours, recovery, and health

Garde

Albertsen

Nabe‐Nielsen

et al. 2012

Scand J Work Environ Health

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“…For the purposes of the present study, results will be presented for the questions about work situation (including psychosocial work stress), sleep/sleepiness, health and job satisfaction. The psychometrics of these questions were presented in the paper by Eriksen and Kecklund 21) . The questionnaire included one question about whether reorganization had occurred.…”

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“…The age range varied between 22 and 65 yr (mean: 46.8 yr) and 540 of the participants (35%) worked daytime while 973 (64%) where shift workers and 10 subjects (1%) did not answer the question about current working schedules. Two papers related to shift work have previously been published 21,22) . The period between 2000 and 2005 was associated with frequent organizational changes in the Swedish police force, of which downsizing due to decreased economical resources was most common.…”

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The Impact of Organizational Changes on Work Stress, Sleep, Recovery and Health

Greubel

Kecklund

2011

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The study objective was to investigate the impact of different kinds of organizational changes, as well as anticipation of such changes, on work-related stress, sleep, recovery and health. It was hypothesized that impaired sleep and recovery increase the adverse health consequences of organizational changes. The data consisted of cross sectional questionnaire data from a random sample of 1,523 employees in the Swedish police force. It could be shown that extensive organizational changes including downsizing or a change in job tasks were associated with a small increase in work stress, disturbed sleep, incomplete recovery and health complaints. However, less extensive organizational changes like relocation did not affect these outcome variables. Anticipation of extensive organizational changes had almost the same effect as actual changes. Furthermore a moderating effect of sleep and work stress on gastrointestinal complaints and depressive symptoms was found. Thus, like former studies already suggested, extensive organizational changes resulted in increased stress levels, poorer health and impaired sleep and recovery. Furthermore, organizational instability due to anticipation of changes was as negative as actual changes. There was also some evidence that disturbed sleep increased these adverse health effects, in particular with respect to anticipation of organizational changes.

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“…Generally, it is recommended that the employer or person in the organization responsible for designing shift work schedules should have knowledge about circadian principles (75). In addition, there is a growing body of evidence suggesting that some of the negative consequences of shift work are lessened when the employees can choose their own schedule (76)(77)(78)(79)(80). In a review, Åkerstedt recommends avoiding: (i) morning shifts that begin too early (ie, before 07.00 hours), (ii) too many successive shifts without time off, and (iii) too many successive night shifts (ie, >3) in rotating systems.…”

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confidence: 99%