The attitudes and general health of student nurses before and immediately after their first eight weeks of nightwork
研究了43名护士在首次八周夜班前后健康、睡眠、社交和人际关系的变化，发现夜班导致全面恶化，且预期夜班本身就会带来问题，提示应在夜班开始前提供咨询。
A group of 43 student nurses were studied before and immediately after their first eight weeks of nightwork. Volunteers answered questions about their general health, sleep, and eating habits, as well as their social lives and relationships with friends. In all measures there was a deterioration produced by nightwork. About half the subjects volunteered the view that the forthcoming nightwork would cause a decline in the standard of their lifestyle or that it would improve now that nightwork had finished. This subgroup showed a significantly greater deterioration in interpersonal relationships, even though general health status was not significantly different. These results indicate that the problems associated with nightwork can arise before coping mechanisms can be expected to have been devised, and even in anticipation of nightwork. They imply that counselling is needed before nightwork is actually started.