Cronotipo e privação do sono nos trabalhadores do serviço noturno hospitalar de enfermagem / Chronotip and sleep privation in the night shift nursing hospital workers

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

The present study has as objective to study the influence of the individual chronobiological aspects in the tolerance of the nursing professionals to the hospital night shift. Classified the professionals of nursing of the hospital night shift in accordance with their chronobiological profile, quantified the sleepiness of these professionals, related the degree of sleepiness of the professionals of nursing of the night shift with its respective chronotips and argued, in theory, the application of the chronobiology in the organization of the nursing work. This research was characterized as applied nature; quantitative to the form of boarding of the problem; descriptive, of the point of view of its objectives and survey, according to technician procedures. The institution of the research was an university hospital located in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Through the intentional sampling, 33 professionals of nursing is selected as citizens of the research. The instruments used were the Eveningness / Morningness Questionnaire and the Epworth Sleepiness Scale. The collection of data lasted ten days of the month of August of 2008, covering the three shifts in a 12X60h scale. The data were analyzed through descriptive statistics and the results presented under the form of graphs. Ahead of the presented results, most was verified that it had the predominance of nursing technician in the studied sample; of female sex, with average age of 46 years. Predominant chronotip was the indifferent one and it does not meet the definitly morningness and definitly eveningness one extrems. About the sleepiness degree, the majority of the citizens presents resulted different of normality in the most different levels. When the sleepiness degree was applied to each chronotip separately, was observed that the citizens of moderately eveningness chronotip presented a good tolerance to the night shift work; the citizens of indifferent chronotip demonstrated a moderate tolerance, whereas the citizens moderately morningness chronotip shown a bigger difficulty of tolerance to this turn. In relation to the degree of sleepiness applied to each band age, it had a gradual worsening of the degrees of sleepiness with the increase of the age, the band above of 40 years presented the biggest percentage of individuals with moderate to serious degree of sleepiness. The theoretical studies had shown the importance of the application of the chronobiology in the organization of the nursing work. It concluded that the nursing hospital night shift workers can suffer the consequences of the privation of sleep with the increase of sleepiness, also that the individual cronobiological aspects, can exert important influence in the professionals of nursing`s tolerance to the night shift.

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sono - aspectos da saúde enfermagem do trabalho trabalho noturno - aspectos da saúde chronobiology cronobiologia enfermagem night shift trabalho noturno nursing occupational

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