Move the night way: how can physical activity facilitate adaptation to shift work?
Abstract Shift work, involving night work, leads to impaired sleep, cognition, health and wellbeing, and an increased risk of occupational incidents. Current countermeasures include circadian adaptation to phase shift circadian biomarkers. However, evidence of real-world circadian adaptation is foun...
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| author | Dayna F. Easton Charlotte C. Gupta Grace E. Vincent Sally A. Ferguson |
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| description | Abstract Shift work, involving night work, leads to impaired sleep, cognition, health and wellbeing, and an increased risk of occupational incidents. Current countermeasures include circadian adaptation to phase shift circadian biomarkers. However, evidence of real-world circadian adaptation is found primarily in occupations where light exposure is readily controlled. Despite this, non-photic adaptation to shift work remains under researched. Other markers of shift work adaptation exist (e.g., improvements in cognition and wellbeing outcomes) but are relatively unexplored. Timeframes for shift work adaptation involve changes which occur over a block of shifts, or over a shift working career. We propose an additional shift work adaptation timeframe exists which encompasses acute within shift changes in markers of adaptation. We also propose that physical activity might be an accessible and cost-effective countermeasure that could influence multiple markers of adaptation across three timeframes (Within Shift, Within Block, Within Work-span). Finally, practical considerations for shift workers, shift work industries and future research are identified. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a3fff2b75e6d46af8acd1c2902e542d02024-03-05T19:58:50ZengNature PortfolioCommunications Biology2399-36422024-03-017111010.1038/s42003-024-05962-8Move the night way: how can physical activity facilitate adaptation to shift work?Dayna F. Easton0Charlotte C. Gupta1Grace E. Vincent2Sally A. Ferguson3Appleton Institute, School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, Central Queensland UniversityAppleton Institute, School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, Central Queensland UniversityAppleton Institute, School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, Central Queensland UniversityAppleton Institute, Central Queensland UniversityAbstract Shift work, involving night work, leads to impaired sleep, cognition, health and wellbeing, and an increased risk of occupational incidents. Current countermeasures include circadian adaptation to phase shift circadian biomarkers. However, evidence of real-world circadian adaptation is found primarily in occupations where light exposure is readily controlled. Despite this, non-photic adaptation to shift work remains under researched. Other markers of shift work adaptation exist (e.g., improvements in cognition and wellbeing outcomes) but are relatively unexplored. Timeframes for shift work adaptation involve changes which occur over a block of shifts, or over a shift working career. We propose an additional shift work adaptation timeframe exists which encompasses acute within shift changes in markers of adaptation. We also propose that physical activity might be an accessible and cost-effective countermeasure that could influence multiple markers of adaptation across three timeframes (Within Shift, Within Block, Within Work-span). Finally, practical considerations for shift workers, shift work industries and future research are identified.https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-05962-8 |
| spellingShingle | Dayna F. Easton Charlotte C. Gupta Grace E. Vincent Sally A. Ferguson Move the night way: how can physical activity facilitate adaptation to shift work? Communications Biology |
| title | Move the night way: how can physical activity facilitate adaptation to shift work? |
| title_full | Move the night way: how can physical activity facilitate adaptation to shift work? |
| title_fullStr | Move the night way: how can physical activity facilitate adaptation to shift work? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Move the night way: how can physical activity facilitate adaptation to shift work? |
| title_short | Move the night way: how can physical activity facilitate adaptation to shift work? |
| title_sort | move the night way how can physical activity facilitate adaptation to shift work |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-05962-8 |
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