Shift Work and Stress

摘要

Disturbance of circadian rhythms can affectconcentration, motivation, and reaction time, particularly at night.This combination can result in an increased risk of accidents andinjury and health problems. Symptoms of the health problems relatedto the disturbance of biological clock, were considered as Stressproblem categories like (a) Sleeplessness; (b) Stress; (c) Anxiety; (d)Anger; (e) Depression; and (f) Mental perturbations. Stress andMental health affected individuals among the shift workers wereidentified based on their own ratings and respondents, on their ownperception rated each of the symptom on a 4-point scale. Only thoserespondents, who have rated them either Medium or High degreeonly were considered as the individual affected by stress. On thewhole, 143 respondents were identified as stress affected, and someof them with more than one symptom. Respondents with more thanone stress symptoms were considered under Multisymptom groups offour orders based on the number of symptoms manifested. Of the total97 MS respondents, only 5 (3.5%) were in the MS5 group,manifesting all the five symptoms. The frequency of the MS2, MS3,and MS4 were recorded at 27.97%, 22.38% and 13.99%,respectively. Further, it is essential that an ideal rotation of the shiftsbe adopted so as to reduce the sleeplessness and fatigue among theshift workers.