Sleep Quality and Depression Symptoms Among Nurses Working Night Shifts (Saudi Arabia)

Sleep Quality and Depression Symptoms Among Nurses Working Night Shifts (Saudi Arabia)

Type: Field / Observational study

Registration: PMCID: PMC10335288

Status: Published

Tags: Cross‑sectional, Mental health, Nurses, Sleep

External URL: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10335288/

Summary

Poor sleep quality correlated with higher depression symptoms among night‑shift nurses in a tertiary hospital sample.

Why It Matters For Night Shift Workers and Night Owls

Evidence here how night‑shift patterns relate to mood and stress, and how they shows sleep & alertness and mental health for night‑shift workers and night owls. It situates sleep‑mood changes within schedule patterns, validating experiences many night workers already recognize. For night workers and night owls, the signal helps explain why the same rota can feel markedly different across weeks and people.

Tags

  • Cross‑sectional
  • Mental health
  • Nurses
  • Sleep

Notes

Open access.

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