Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Background: For many years, occupational physicians have debated whether there is a link between working the night shift and depression and other co-occurring mental health issues, with an emphasis on work-related, biological, individual, and environmental factors. We performed this systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate the overall association between sleep deprivation and depression among nurses working night shifts.
Methods: A systematic search was carried out across the electronic databases PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science from inception to 30 September , for studies that reported a relationship between estimated night shift work and depression in nurses. The I 2 statistic was used to assess heterogeneity. The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation technique was used to evaluate the quality of the evidence, and the NewcastleβOttawa Scale was utilized to assess the methodological quality of each of the included studies.
We determined the overall relationship between working nights and the onset of depression. Results: A total of 20 studies were included in the systematic review. Furthermore, 8 studies were included in the meta-analysis due to their common use of the OR as an effect measure. The prediction interval for the overall estimate was 0.
Conclusions: The outcome of this systematic review and meta-analysis showed a significant association between night shift work, the circadian and sleep disruption it causes, and the risk of depression in nurses. This demonstrates that nurses who work night shifts are at risk of developing depression. Keywords: circadian rhythm, sleep, nurses, shift work, mental health, depression. There is a lot of data showing that shift work, especially night employment, is unhealthy.
Since humans are diurnal creatures, their typical sleepβwake cycle entails sleeping at night and being awake during the day [ 1 ]. The night shift is frequently included in the shift schedules that nurses follow.
