Year: 2015
Type: review
Study design: Systematic Review
Abstract: The high demand of services around-the-clock in today's fast paced world has increased the number of people routinely engaged in shift work and has led to changes in work conditions.The pattern, quantity and variety of food which humans consume changes during the 24 hours of the day.Compared to day workers, shift workers seem to have more health problems.The aim of this review was to evaluate if change from day work to shift work affects energy intake, consumption of fruits and vegetables or sugar intake compared to workers who continue doing day work.Electronic searches of the MEDLINE (n=3897) and SCOPUS (n=1180), from the earliest record till 11 th of April 2014 yielded 5077 publications and two studies were obtained through references.After the removal of duplicates (n=216) a total number of 4863 studies were obtained.All the titles and abstract were screened by two review authors independently.Altogether 34 references were selected for full text reading and assessed by two authors individually.Out of these, those which did not fulfill our inclusion criteria or were not written in English were excluded.Only one study was found which was related to this review.Data extraction and risk of bias assessment was completed by two authors independently.To obtain additional data and clarification authors of eligible publications were contacted.Only one cohort study, which had measured the primary outcome, was included in this systematic review.In the included study, there was no significant difference in change in energy intake between those who stayed in day work and those who changed from day to shift work.
Author: Suresh Kumar
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3096442228