AUTHOR=Puerta Yolanda , García Mirian , Heras Elena , López-Herce Jesús , Fernández Sarah N. , Mencía Santiago , Sleep Study Group , Corchado Alba M. , Obeso Rosa M. , García-Moreno Ana B. , Jiménez Bryan , Gil Esther , Paredes Patricia , Pizarroso Antonia F. , Sánchez Elena , Calvo Mar TITLE=Sleep Characteristics of the Staff Working in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Based on a Survey JOURNAL=Frontiers in Pediatrics VOLUME=5 YEAR=2017 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pediatrics/articles/10.3389/fped.2017.00288 DOI=10.3389/fped.2017.00288 ISSN=2296-2360 ABSTRACT=

The objective is to evaluate the sleep characteristics of the staff working in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). They were asked to complete an anonymous survey concerning the characteristics and quality of their sleep, as well as the impact of sleep disturbances on their work and social life, assessed by Functional Outcomes of Sleep Questionnaire (FOSQ)-10 questionnaire. The response rate was 84.6% (85% females): 17% were doctors, 57% nurses, 23% nursing assistants, and 3% porters. 83.8% of them worked on fix shifts and 16.2% did 24-h shifts. 39.8% of workers considered that they had a good sleep quality and 39.8% considered it to be poor or bad. The score was good in 18.2% of the staff and bad in 81.8%. Night shift workers showed significantly worse sleep quality on both the objective and subjective evaluation. There was a weak concordance (kappa 0.267; p = 0.004) between the perceived quality of sleep and the FOSQ-10 evaluation. Sleep disorders affected their emotional state (30.2% of workers) and relationships or social life (22.6%). In conclusion, this study finds that a high percentage of health professionals from PICU suffer from sleep disorders that affect their personal and social life. This negative impact is significantly higher in night shift workers. Many health workers are not aware of their bad sleep quality.