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Mohamed Aboudraz

Written Assignment Unit 2

Introduction

"Sleep Deprivation and Psychomotor Performance Among Night-Shift Nurses" is a study carried

out by Johnson et al. (2010), which investigates how sleep deprivation affects the psychomotor
performance of night-shift nurses. Sleep deprivation has become common in recent years due to

modern lifestyles and work schedules. The researchers believed that sleep-deprived nurses would

perform worse than those with more rest.

This reminds me of my own experience in high school. I had a very important exam, and I was

procrastinating too much that I ended having only three hours of sleep, and it was a disaster. I

forgot my pen, missed some questions, and even couldn't focus. Sleep is so important for the

mind to think clearly and do well.

Methods Used

In this research, the researchers studied 289 nurses that has night shifts. Most of them were

females and worked around 12-hours a day. The study collected information with a very

straightforward and simple way, a 48-hour sleep diary. Nurses wrote down how many hours they

slept and compared it to the sufficient number of hours they needed to feel rested. If they slept

less than what they needed, they were considered sleep-deprived.

To get the results, the researchers used the d2 test of attention to measures each nurse's

performance. This test checks how fast and precise can a person process information. Moreover,

the nurses were only tested between midnight and 4 a.m., which is the time of their shifts so it

reflects their conditions at work.

Participants:

The study involved mostly female nurses (82%), and most of them were white (75%) and

married (60%). Moreover, most of them were Registered Nurses (89.82%) and had a 12-hour

work shift. Many of them reported that they used different sources of caffeine to stay awake
during their shifts, and also a small portion of them consumed chocolate or other stimulants.

Lastly, 40% of the nurses said that they struggled to stay awake while driving from work to

home, which shows how they lack enough sleep and it really is affecting them.

Findings

The results of the study were stunning. The results showed that 56% of the nurses were actually

sleep-deprived. They had an average of 3.9 hours of sleep each day, while non-sleep-deprived

nurses got about 6.78 hours of sleep each day. The sleep-deprived nurses performed poorly on

the d2 Test of Attention. They showed slow processing times and made many mistakes.

However, even non-sleep-deprived nurses didn't perform as well as the researchers expected.

This might be a consequence of not getting the adequate hours of sleeping. These results show

how dangerous sleep deprivation is and the risks it has on a patient safety and nurses' own health.

Limits and Strengths:

Let's take a look at the strengths of this study. One of the strengths I observed is the large size of

289 nurses from different hospitals, which makes the results more reliable. Additionally, they

used a well-known approach to test the results, which is the d2 Test of Attention. I believe this

made the results much clearer.

However, there were some limitations in the research too. One limitation is the fact that the study

relied on self-reported data. People might not always report their sleep accurately, so the results

might be a little different from the truth. I think it would have been better to use tools like sleep

trackers to get exact information. One more thing I found in the study is that they don't look into

social factors like family problems or life problems, which might also affect the sleep. For
example, a nurse taking care for kids or that has sick parents might not sleep enough. If these

factors were included in the research we might have gotten a clearer idea.

If I can give some tips to the researchers, I would suggest using tools to track sleep instead of the

participants themselves taking notes. Additionally, I would suggest that they put some more

requirements for the participants to be accepted, while doing that in a wider range of hospitals,

which would have made this research more reliable.

Conclusion
This study by Johnson et al. (2010) was a great highlight for how not getting enough sleep would

impact night-shift nurses. It was very clear that sleep deprivation negatively affected their

performance, which made it hard for them to focus and do their job well. This doesn't only apply

on nurses. Many people in today's word face tough schedules and lack enough sleep. This study

makes it clear that we have to pay more attention to how sleep affects us, whether as students or

workers. Overall, this research was very helpful because it shows the main idea that sleep is

crucial for everyone's health and performance.

References
Johnson et al. (2010). Sleep Deprivation and Psychomotor Performance Among Night-Shift Nurses, can
be found in:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/43339908_Sleep_Deprivation_and_Psychomotor_Performan
ce_Among_Night-Shift_Nurses or https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20415342/

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