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Reduced sleep duration and history of work‐related injuries among Washington State adolescents with a history of working
Author(s) -
Graves Janessa M.,
Miller Mary E.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
american journal of industrial medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1097-0274
pISSN - 0271-3586
DOI - 10.1002/ajim.22416
Subject(s) - medicine , occupational safety and health , odds ratio , logistic regression , sleep (system call) , injury prevention , odds , poison control , occupational injury , suicide prevention , occupational medicine , human factors and ergonomics , shift work , demography , sleep deprivation , gerontology , sleep debt , physical therapy , environmental health , psychiatry , cognition , pathology , sociology , computer science , operating system
Background The relationship between sleep and occupational injury risk has not been adequately explored for working adolescents. Methods Data were analyzed from the 2010 Washington State Healthy Youth Survey of 8th, 10th, and 12th grade public school students. Teens reported average school and weekend night sleep hours and history of work‐related injury that received medical treatment. Multivariable logistic regression evaluated the association between sleep duration and occupational injury. Results Of 4,144 working teens, 6.4% reported ever having an occupational injury. Teens who sleep ≤5 hr/school night had greater odds of a history of occupational injury than those sleeping 8 hr (OR:2.91, 95% CI:1.85–4.57). No significant association was observed for weekend night sleep duration. Conclusions Reduced school night sleep was associated with increased odds of work‐related injury in adolescents. Long hours and late night schedules may contribute to decreased sleep time and potentially have other health and developmental impacts for youth. Am. J. Ind. Med. 58:464–471, 2015. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.