title: Contributing influences of work environment on sleep quantity and quality of nursing assistants in long-term care facilities: A cross-sectional study.
abstract: The effect of shift work on nurses' sleep is well-studied, but there are other challenging aspects of health care work that might also affect the sleep of direct caregivers. This study examined the influence of the long-term care work environment on sleep quantity and quality of nursing assistants. A cross-sectional survey collected data from 650 nursing assistants in 15 long-term care facilities; 46% reported short sleep duration and 23% reported poor sleep quality. A simple additive index of the number of beneficial work features (up to 7) was constructed for analysis with Poisson regression. With each unit increase of beneficial work features, nursing assistants were 7% less likely to report short sleep duration and 17% less likely to report poor sleep quality. These results suggest that effective workplace interventions should address a variety of work stressors, not only work schedule arrangements, in order to improve nursing assistants' sleep health.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 113 Wilder Street, Lowell, MA 01854, USA. Electronic address: Yuan_Zhang@uml.edu.
authors.forename: Yuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Work Environment, One University Ave., University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854, USA.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Punnett
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 113 Wilder Street, Lowell, MA 01854, USA.
authors.forename: Geoffry Phillips
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: McEnany
authors.affiliation: Department of Work Environment, One University Ave., University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854, USA.
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gore
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009728:Nursing Assistants / Q000523:psychology*; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Job stress; Long-term care; Nursing assistants; Sleep quality; Sleep quantity; Work environment