Napping on the night shift among nursing staff: potential benefits for workers' health
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Napping on the night shift among nursing staff: potential benefits for workers' health
Objective: To characterize naps during night shifts in terms of duration, allocation, quality, and sleep efficiency among nursing professionals. Cross-sectional study conducted in 2009. Professionals working the night shift for more than one year and reporting no sleep complaints answered a questionnaire, wore an actigraph (device to monitor human sleep-wake cycle) and completed an activity pro...
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عنوان ژورنال: Escola Anna Nery - Revista de Enfermagem
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1414-8145
DOI: 10.5935/1414-8145.20150005