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Although we should sleep more than seven hours a day, shift workers tend to be the ones who rest the least, which leads to health problems.

According to the latest studies, the necessary hours of sleep vary with age (some are even able to sleep only 5 hours without flinching), the reality is that the average necessary sleep in general should be 7 hours or more of quality sleep, as indicated by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society.

Sleeping little (less than 7 hours) has been shown to have consequences on health, from cardiovascular diseases to disorders such as anxiety or depression, which can directly influence day-to-day work.

It is important to take into account factors such as work stress, total working hours, the physical demand of said work, and especially if you work in shifts.

All these factors directly influence the short duration of sleep, but precisely this last factor, shift work, seems to be the most influential of all according to a recent study published by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the United States, carried out between 2013 and 2014 in 29 different states.

WHAT ARE THE JOBS WHERE PEOPLE SLEEP THE LEAST

According to the CDC’s findings, within the 22 main occupational groups there are 5 groups of jobs where there were higher percentages of workers who slept less than necessary were:

Production (42.9%)

Health care (40.1%)

Health professionals and technicians (40%)

Food preparation and services (39.8%)

Protection services (39.2%)

Likewise, the occupation groups that had a lower percentage were Education, Training and Library; and Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (both with only 31.3% of workers sleeping less than necessary) much less than the previous groups.

To reach this conclusion, the researchers used data from the annual BRFSS telephone survey, where people over the age of 18 are randomly called and asked about risky health-related behaviors, what diseases they have, and how and when they use health-related services.

In addition, respondents were also asked what type of work they did or if they were unemployed during the last year; and, specifically, how many hours of sleep they thought they used to sleep each day.

MEN OF ANY AGE TEND TO SLEEP LESS

During the study , respondents were divided by age, race and sex, concluding that across all age groups approximately 36.5% of adults tend to sleep less than necessary.

On the other hand, if men and women were compared, the former tended to be the ones who slept less (37.5% of men) compared to women (35.4%).

Likewise, people with university studies (40% slept little) and divorced, widowed, separated or single people (39.5%) also stood out for their low hours of sleep.

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WHY THERE ARE PROFESSIONS WHERE PEOPLE SLEEP LESS

According to the CDC, previous studies had already concluded that certain jobs belonging to industry, production, transportation and material occupations were more likely to have workers who slept little.

In addition, precisely in these jobs, shifts were the cause of sleep disorders, excessive sleepiness and an increased risk of sleeping little and poorly, compared to those workers who always worked the same day shift.

The CDC corroborates that shift work has a negative influence on health, altering the circadian rhythm and causing irregularities in the sleep cycle.

And, if you analyze the 5 groups of workers where a higher percentage of people who sleep little has been detected, you can see that up to 35% to 50% of all of them work in shifts.

Conclusions

In any case, it must be taken into account that it is not possible to carry out a real long-term follow-up to corroborate the analysis.

In addition, as it is a telephone survey with data obtained through direct questions, without analysis in between, it can cause biases and errors (such as believing that one sleeps little, when in fact it is not, but subjectively it has been poorly analyzed).

Source: El Español