Comparison of eating habits and sleep qualities of healtcare workers working with and without shift at a foundation hospital

The definition of a shift work system is mentioned when the service is compulsory all day long. The shift work system causes various negative effects on human physiology and psychology. In this study, we investigated the effects of eating behavior on sleep quality, while sleep quality and eating behaviors of the health personnel of shift work were compared. The study was conducted on 110 volunteer health personnel working in a foundation hospital in Istanbul. The Dutch Eating Behavior (DEBQ) was used to determine eating behaviors, and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PUKI) was used to assess sleep quality. Descriptive statistical methods were used when the data were evaluated. When the participants were examined, it was determined that 60 were working in shifts and 50 were working without shifts. When sleep quality was compared, 76.7% of the shift workers were worse; 42.0% were worse than those who did not shift work. The BMI values of female health workers working without shift were found to be 23.47 (± 2.71) kg / m2 and 21.52 (± 2.07) kg / m2 higher than the BMI level of shift workers. When eating behaviors were compared, the total score of emotional eating behaviors of shift workers 2.49 (± 1.28) was higher than the total score of emotional eating behaviors 1.97 (± 0.96) of non-shift workers. There was no statistically significant difference between the total scores of restrictive eating behaviors and total scores of external eating behaviors and group averages of health workers (p> 0.05). In shift workers there was not founded average statistical difference between, the quality of sleeping and the total point of restrictive eating behavior of health workers, behavior or eating, emotional eating behavior also external eating behavior. In non-shift workers, the total score 2.89 (± 0.76) of restrictive eating behaviors of health workers with poor sleep quality was higher than the total score 2.23 (± 0.80) of restricting eating behaviors of healthy workers with good sleep quality (p<0.05). There was no statistically significant difference between the average score of total emotional eating behavior and total score of external eating behavior and sleep quality of those who did not work shifts (p> 0.05). Health staff working without shifts may be able to achieve a better level of sleep quality by providing the negative effects of restrictive eating behavior and providing a healthy eating plan and normal BMI average.