Effects of night duty on sleep and autonomic nervous activity of doctors: Comparison of on call in the hospital with night shift work.

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25670322
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Hygiene and public health
• Research Institution: Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
• Principal Investigator: AN Byongmun 京都府立医科大学, 医学(系)研究科(研究院), 助教 (70602556)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MIYAZAKI Soichiro 滋賀医科大学, 医学部, 特任教授 (20200157)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 産業保健 / 救急 / 当直 / 睡眠 / 夜間業務 / 医療安全

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Lack of sleep with night duty threatens the health of doctors. In addition, the sleepiness and reduced alertness of the day following night duty may cause medical accidents. In this research, we investigated whether a change occurred to the amount and the quality of the sleep by the difference in the night duty systems.
We compared “on call in the hospital” with “night shift work”. The quality of subjective sleep and objective sleep was higher in the former duty system than in the latter duty system.

Free Research Field

小児救急