Shift work and health complaints

The present study focuses on the potential effects of shift-work on sleep and health complaints. Based on the assumption that in order to prevent and reduce work-related health effects it is important to identify the involved mechanisms, a major part of the present project is focused on understanding such mechanisms.
In the current context we focus on the possible effect of night shift work and sleep restriction on different health complaints in the working population, a field in which research is scarce.

The present project combines an experimental and an epidemiological approach to study whether sleep deprivation, as it is practiced in non-daytime shift-work, is associated with health complaints. The principal objectives of the proposed project are i) to identify the effect of experimental sleep deprivation on pain, ii) to identify the effect of shift work on sleep and health complaints and iii) to identify the effect of shift work on health complaints. Participants will be recruited from nurses at Hospital from all across Norway.

Project page in Norwegian