ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ ВЛИЯНИЯ РАБОТЫ В НОЧНУЮ СМЕНУ НА КАЧЕСТВО ЖИЗНИ ВРАЧЕЙ

Abstract

The article presents the results of a study conducted among 755 doctors. 446 doctors worked at night (main group), 309 did not work at night (comparison group). Respondents who work shifts at night had significantly worse indicators on all subscales of the SF-36 (36-Item Short-Form Health Survey). With the exclusion from the main group of doctors working in emergency medical care, as well as doctors who are constantly on duty at night (obstetricians, resuscitators), the results of a comparative assessment of the SF-36 subscales for doctors on duty and not on duty at night did not change. When dividing the study sample of respondents into age groups by percentiles and subsequent comparison, it was revealed that young doctors of the main group under the age of 26 years do not have significant differences in any of the SF-36 scales from doctors under 26 years of age in the comparison group. In each subsequent age group, the number of parameters significantly differing for the worse among the respondents on duty is growing. Within the main group and within the comparison group between the first (up to 26 years old) and the second (27-32 years old) age groups, there were no significant differences in the SF-36 indicators. When compared with older age groups, the differences increased and became significant. Interestingly, in the main group and the comparison group, the changes were multidirectional. Among the older respondents of the main group, a number of SF-36 indicators, especially those affecting physical functioning, significantly worsened. The older respondents in the comparison group had an improvement in the SF-36 indicators, affecting mainly mental functioning, while the quality of physical functioning did not change.