Association of Fatigue and Sleep Disorders with Work Shift among Nurses working at Teaching Hospitals

Abstract

Objectives: The study aims at assessing the work shift pattern as well as fatigue and sleep disorders and to find out the association between them. Material and methods: A descriptive analytical study that is conducted for the period of October 1st 2021 to June 1st, 2022. The sample of the study includes 239 nurses were selected by convenient sampling method (non-probability sample). The setting of the study includes the teaching hospitals in Baghdad city. The questionnaire of the study is employed to fit the current study which consists of two parts; the first part is contained the covering letter and the socio-demographic variables; the second part is concerned with items related fatigue and sleep disorder. The data have been collected through the utilization of the self-administrative report as a mean of data collection. Statistical analyses were conducted by using statistical package for social science (IBM SPSS Statistics) version 26.0. Results: The study found that 55% of nurses are associated with moderate level of fatigue and sleep disorder (38.84±5.798). There is significant association of work shift with fatigue and sleep disorders among nurses evidenced by significant difference at p-value= .038. Conclusions: Based on the study finding, the study concludes that nurses are experiencing moderate effect of work shift consequences regarding fatigue and sleep disorder. The significant impact of work shift is associated with fatigue and sleeps disorder. Recommendations: The study is recommended regular health assessment is required for nurses working in night and evening shift to explore their health status and detection of physical problems related to sleep and eating and so on.