Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the dimensions and conditions caused by shifts in nurses who worked in constant shifts in non-governmental selective hospitals in Tehran in 2014. In this cross-sectional and applied research, the shifts standard questionnaire was used. After confirming the validity and reliability (Cronbach’s alpha 0.73), the questionnaires were distributed among 305 nurses of 6 non-governmental selective hospitals in Tehran, based on stratified random sampling. In the research, the data analysis was conducted in two levels of descriptive and inferential statistics. The response rate was 0.91. 74.4% of the participant nurses were female and 25.6% were male. The results showed that there was a significant relationship between age and physical health (P = 0.008), gender and physical health (P = 0.015), education and health (P = 0.014), gender and physical-cognitive anxiety (P = 0.006), age and social-familial status (P = 0.001), Marital status and social-familial status (P = 0.001), having a second job and social-familial status (P = 0.001), education and sleep-fatigue (P = 0.002). Planning with respect to standards of nurses’ working hours and avoiding overtime, especially nurses who have more experience, can prevent severe complications of shifts and improve health level and ultimately the quality of care.
Highlights
Nowadays, due to the progress of societies, population growth, industrialization of countries and requirements of some jobs, a considerable proportion of employees are working with shifts-scheduled programs [1]
Shift is defined as a non-standard and necessary program that at least 50% of its time consists of hours apart from 8 am to 4 pm [2]
Several studies have been conducted to evaluate the adverse effects of shifts on performance, health and quality of life of individuals who work with shift schedules
Summary
Due to the progress of societies, population growth, industrialization of countries and requirements of some jobs, a considerable proportion of employees are working with shifts-scheduled programs [1]. Several studies have been conducted to evaluate the adverse effects of shifts on performance, health and quality of life of individuals who work with shift schedules. Some of these studies have shown the relationship between shifts and emergence of physical and psychological complications [4]. Shifts are more prevailed in large and complex working environments. In such environments, its adverse effects are considerably higher [2]. Combining shifts and multiple disruptions of workplace, high physical and cognitive needs, loss of individual’s control over his work and other psychomotor and social stressors, would impose additional negative effects on the health of employees [5]
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