| DOI LINK: https://doi.org/10.59671/clHrk |
| Paper ID:clHrk |
| Volume:406 |
| Issue:12 |
| Title:Night work effects on stress, sleep quality and cognitive performance of police officers |
| Abstract:Police work is in need at night. This may have adverse effects on police officers involved. This study aims to assess police officers stress, sleep quality, and cognitive performance using Spielberger Police Stress Survey, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and Cognitive Functioning Self-Assessment Scale respectively. Data were obtained from 307 police officers at one of the Gulf countries. Levene`s test of equal variances, t-test, analysis of variance, Cronbach`s alpha and Spearman`s rank correlation were used to analyse the data. Results showed that shift work has negative consequences on sleep quality, cognitive performance and, to a lesser extent, on stress. Results also showed that shift officers reported struggling more to stay awake than non-shift officers. Moreover, alarmingly short sleep duration and long time to fall asleep of many police officers, regardless of their roster, were reported. Cronbach`s alpha outcome indicated that the results are reliable. This paper presents a novel work on shift work effects on police officers in developing countries. Based on the results, recommendations to help police officers cope with the negative effects of night work and improve their performance and sleep quality are given at the end. |
| Keywords:Shift work, police officers, sleep quality, cognitive functions, stress. |
| Authors:Salaheddine Bendak*, Bushra F. Almheiri, Hamad S. Rashid |
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