The effect of bright light on sleepiness among rapid-rotating 12-hour shift workers

OBJECTIVE: About 20% of workers in industrialized countries are shift workers and more than half of them work on night or rotating shifts. Most night workers complain of sleepiness due to lack of adjustment of the circadian rhythm. In simulated night-work experiments, scheduled exposure to bright li...

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Main Authors: Khosro Sadeghniiat-Haghighi, Zohreh Yazdi, Hassan Jahanihashemi, Omid Aminian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health (NOROSH) 2011-01-01
Series:Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health
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Online Access: https://www.sjweh.fi/show_abstract.php?abstract_id=3086