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

• Glavni autori: Khosro Sadeghniiat-Haghighi (Autor), Zohreh Yazdi (Autor), Hassan Jahanihashemi (Autor), Omid Aminian (Autor)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: Nordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health (NOROSH), 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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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...