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01-04-2020 | Insomnia | Original Article

Pain complaints are associated with quick returns and insomnia among Norwegian nurses, but do not differ between shift workers and day only workers

Authors: Dagfinn Matre, Kristian Bernhard Nilsen, Maria Katsifaraki, Siri Waage, Ståle Pallesen, Bjørn Bjorvatn

Published in: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health | Issue 3/2020

Abstract

Purpose

To determine whether common work schedule characteristics among Norwegian nurses were associated with subjective pain complaints.

Methods

A cross-sectional study in a sample of 1585 nurses, part of the longitudinal questionnaire-based cohort project ‘Survey of Shift work, Sleep and Health’ (SUSSH). Pain from six regions were assessed: ‘headache’, ‘neck/shoulder/upper back’, ‘upper extremities’, ‘lower back’, ‘lower extremities’, and ‘abdomen’. Logistic and negative binomial regression (adjusted for age, sex, percentage of full-time equivalent, marital status and children living at home) were conducted where work schedule, number of night shifts last year, number of quick returns (QR) last year (< 11 h between shifts) and insomnia were predictors of localized pain, widespread pain and number of pain sites.

Results

Localized pain, widespread pain and number of pain sites were associated with insomnia (OR 2.06, 95% CI 1.66–2.55, OR 2.14, 95% CI 1.47–3.09, IRR 1.70, 95% CI 1.51–1.91, respectively). Work schedule and number of night shifts worked last year were not associated with any of the three pain measures. Number of QRs worked last year tended to be associated with number of pain sites.

Conclusion

The study did not support the hypothesis that non-daytime work schedules are associated with pain complaints. Neither was there support for the hypothesis linking number of night shifts, or the number of QRs, to pain complaints. Future studies should aim to determine the association between QRs and pain in more detail. Pain complaints were associated with insomnia.

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Title: Pain complaints are associated with quick returns and insomnia among Norwegian nurses, but do not differ between shift workers and day only workers
Authors: Dagfinn Matre
Kristian Bernhard Nilsen
Maria Katsifaraki
Siri Waage
Ståle Pallesen
Bjørn Bjorvatn
Publication date: 01-04-2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keyword: Insomnia
Published in: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health / Issue 3/2020
Print ISSN: 0340-0131
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1246
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00420-019-01481-w

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Pain complaints are associated with quick returns and insomnia among Norwegian nurses, but do not differ between shift workers and day only workers

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Purpose

Methods

Results

Conclusion

At a glance: The STEP trials

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Purpose

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Results

Conclusion

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