Open AccessTHE DIETARY PATTERNS OF SHIFTWORKERS ON SHORT ROTATION SHIFTS
Author(s) -
Fisher M.,
Rutishauser I.H.E.,
Read R.S.D.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
community health studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.946
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1753-6405
pISSN - 0314-9021
DOI - 10.1111/j.1753-6405.1986.tb00079.x
Subject(s) - meal , work (physics) , shift work , refinery , work hours , medicine , zoology , environmental health , food science , demography , environmental science , gerontology , biology , engineering , environmental engineering , sociology , mechanical engineering , psychiatry
The freqency of food use of twenty‐five oil refinery operators aged 26 to 59 years was studied on short rotation shift work. Each of the workers was interviewed on day, night and afternoon shift to obtain a 24‐hour qualitative record of food intake. A number of significant differences (p<0.05) were found between different shifts in the frequency of food use, and appeared to be related to changes in the type of meal consumed and the availability of food at the work‐site.