RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SHIFT WORK AND SLEEP QUALITY IN NURSES AT MOTHER AND CHILD ASRI PURWAKARTA
Rr. Desire Meria Nataliningrum, Rizka Hanifannisa Rubani

Faculty of Medicine General Achmad Yani University

Abstract

Hospital is a labor- intensive industry that give many exposures to the worker. Shift work is an ergonomic exposure commonly in nurses. Rotation of shiftwork should be considered with circadian rythme to prevent health and sleep quality disorder. This research aimed to know relationship between shift work and sleep quality disorder, using analytical methode with cross sectional design. There was 78 nurses undertook as sample by simple random sampling, 59( 75,6%) nurses work with shift and 19( 24,4%) nonshift nurses. Questionaire Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) used as the tool to measure sleep quality. The result showed a significant relationship between shift work and sleep quality (p=0,001). Nurses work with shift have bad sleep quality as much as 42 persons (71,2%). In reverse non shift nurses have good sleep quality as much as 14 nurses ( 73,7%). Sleep quality could be induce by psychological stress either by chronic disease or uncomfort circumstances, physical activity, social activity, diet, medicines, family relationship, caffein consumption, life style and comorbid disease. Conclusion : there is relationship between shiftwork and sleep quality in nurses at nurses at mother and child Asri Purwakarta

Keywords: nurses, shift work, sleep quality, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index

Topic: Hospital Management