title: [The relationship between self-awareness of fatigue symptoms and working conditions in female nurses].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this study was to clarify the relationship between self-awareness of fatigue symptoms and working conditions, in female nurses.
  
  
  METHODS
  We studied personal background, working conditions, physical symptoms, "Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index - Japanese version (PSQI-J)", and 13 items that represented the parts related to self-awareness of the "the self-Diagnosis Checklist for Workers' Accumulated Fatigue" in 3,855 female nurses. The targets for analysis were 983 nurses ("all subjects") and among those, 765 "shift workers". The total score (fatigue symptoms self-awareness score) was calculated for 13 items that represented the parts related to self-awareness of the "the self-Diagnosis Checklist for Workers' Accumulated Fatigue". The Mann-Whitney U test and the Kruskal-Wallis test were performed, and the fatigue symptoms self-awareness score was studied, based on personal background, working conditions, physical symptoms and the PSQI-J score.
  
  
  RESULTS
  For "all subjects", there was a significant difference in the fatigue symptoms self-awareness score for department in which they work, the form the work takes, and the PSQI-J score. The fatigue symptoms self-awareness score of nurses with a PSQI-J score of 5.5 or higher was a significantly high value. For "shift workers", there was a significant difference in the fatigue symptoms self-awareness score for presence or absence of a caregiver role, department in which they work, the form the work takes, the form the nap takes during night work and PSQI-J score. There was a significantly high value in the fatigue symptoms self-awareness score of subjects with a caregiver role, subjects working in surgical wards or internal medicine wards, subjects working on a three-shift system, and subjects who were unable to take naps during night work, subjects with a PSQI-J score of 5.5 or higher.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These survey results suggest that it is important to set up a system that will ensure the ability to have naps during night work. It will also be necessary to consider the caregiver role and so on as items related to the fatigue of nurses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Basic Nursing, Akita University Graduate School of Health Sciences, 1-1-1 Hondo, Akita 010-8543, Japan.
authors.forename: Yukiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kikuchi
authors.forename: Noriko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ishii
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001364:Awareness / Q000502:physiology*; D015673:Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D016272:Occupational Health; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014940:Work Schedule Tolerance / Q000502:physiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D017132:Workplace; D055815:Young Adult