Assessment of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index among Physician’s Speciality Who Work Night Shifts
Along with the scientific improvements, performance and wakefulness situations of
mankind became more comprehensible. Sleep is not only a state of unconsciousness in which
body rhythm is restored, but also, it is an unalterable and inevitable period of reconstruction
and regain the energy for humans daily routine, as by physicians working on night shifts.1,2
Therefore measure the quality of sleep is important for increase the productivity. The Pittsburgh
Sleep Quality Index is a psychometric and nonpolysomnographic test, can be used to measure
the sleep quality
Sleep health of a physician, as they are a part of the society and healthcare system, is very important. Sleep can affect,
in short term quality of their work performance, and in long term
the academic career and their health. Background studies mostly
have assessed the effect of sleeplessness on the performance of
physicians.7-10 But the differences and effecting factors on the
sleep quality between the specialties in medicine is not investigated. Emergency physician’s sleep quality (who must passed all
the nigh sleepless) compared to medical colleagues in other specialties are unknown. A qualitative data must be determined for
follow the sleep quality and make an improvement in healthcare
and patient outcome with the healthy physicians. These reasons
led us to perform this study of physicians from different specialties working night shifts from a workload management perspective by assessing scores of sleep quality.
Emerg Med Open J. 2015; 1(1): 5-11. doi: 10.17140/EMOJ-1-102
