Sleep management intervention for shift workers and their employers

用简单的术语描述研究，以便向普通观众宣传。如果获奖，这将是公开的，申请人有责任确保内容适合出版。4000个字符，包括空格和回车符许多办公室工作都遵循周一至周五9-5的工作模式，这与自然的昼夜、明暗周期相匹配。然而，一些工作，如医疗保健，农业，制造业，运输和军事，需要不同的工作时间，15-20%的工作人员在英国工作非标准或轮班工作时间。轮班工作，不得不在不同的时间睡觉和清醒，这意味着睡眠质量较低，清醒时难以保持警觉和集中注意力。三分之一的轮班工人受到失眠症状的影响。这些症状包括入睡困难、疲劳、需要保持清醒时过度嗜睡以及易怒等情绪问题。所有这些都对轮班工人的身心健康产生了很大的影响，并可能影响更广泛的安全因素，例如导致更多的工作或道路事故。 在英国，大约75%的成年人有工作，平均三分之一的醒着时间都在工作，这使得工作场所成为提供支持的好地方。本研究的目的是创造一种新的睡眠管理干预措施，以防止睡眠问题的发展。干预措施将在轮班工作的人及其雇主的帮助下制定，并将通过工作场所提供给新员工或现有员工。该方案将适用于所有轮班工作的工作人员，无论他们是否存在心理健康和睡眠问题。干预的目的是为他们提供管理睡眠和预防问题发展的技能和知识。 研究表明，女性，老年人和来自社会或经济背景的人更容易失眠。我们将确保我们招聘的帮助我们开展这项工作的人员是多样化的，以便项目产出具有相关性，并能使所有受影响的人受益。 为了创建这个项目，我们将开发一个变化理论来描述轮班工作实际上会影响睡眠。我们将定义干预可以影响这些因素的方式，以及我们将测量的事情，以查看干预是否以我们预期的方式起作用。我们将招募轮班工人和雇主，帮助我们从我们已经在英国中部地区的引擎工作的干预。我们团队在创建和提供睡眠干预方面的经验（例如，对于患有慢性疼痛的人，以及非轮班工作的人）将与影响睡眠健康的行为的现有证据相结合，与我们的合作伙伴一起进行干预。 我们将在几个研讨会期间与轮班工人一起创建内容。不同的工作人员将被要求审查所创建的内容，以进行改进，并确保干预措施易于理解和遵循。为了确保最终的干预措施对雇主来说是切实可行的，我们还将与雇主和员工讨论交付方面的挑战。一个焦点小组和对雇主的采访旨在提高他们对如何最好地解决轮班工作员工的心理健康和睡眠问题的认识。还将为雇主编写一本培训手册，这将有助于在研究开发完成后指导方案的实施。

Describe the research in simple terms in a way that could be publicised to a general audience. If awarded, this will be made publicly available, and applicants are responsible for ensuring that the content is suitable for publication.? 4000 characters, including spaces and returns Many office-based jobs follow a Monday-Friday 9-5 working pattern that matches up with the natural day-night, light-dark cycle. However, some jobs such as healthcare, farming, manufacturing, transport, and military, require different working hours, and 15-20% of working people in the UK work non-standard or shift work hours. Working in shifts and having to sleep and be awake at different times can mean lower quality sleep and struggles with alertness and concentration when awake. One in three shift workers are affected by insomnia symptoms. These symptoms include difficulty falling asleep, fatigue, excessive sleepiness when required to stay awake and emotional problems such as irritability. All of this has a big impact on shift-workers' mental and physical health and can impact wider safety factors such as contributing to more accidents at work or on the roads. In the UK, around 75% of adults are in employment and spend on average a third of their waking hours working, making the workplace a good place to deliver support. The objective of this study is to create a new sleep management intervention to prevent sleep problems developing. The intervention will be created with the help of people working shifts and their employers and will be delivered through the workplace to new starters or current staff. The programme will be for all staff working shifts, whether they have existing problems with mental health and sleep or not. The intervention will aim to provide them with the skills and knowledge to manage their sleep and prevent problems developing. Research shows that women, older people, and people from socially or economically challenged backgrounds are more likely to have insomnia. We will ensure that those we recruit to help us with this work are diverse so that project outputs are relevant and can benefit all those affected. To create the programme, we will develop a theory of change to describe what it is about shift work that actually impacts sleep. We will define the ways in which the intervention can impact those factors, and the things we will measure in order to see if the intervention has worked in the way we expected. We will recruit shift workers and employers to help us create the intervention from those we already work with in the Midlands Engine region of the UK. Our team's experience in creating and delivering sleep interventions (e.g., for people with chronic pain, and people working non shift hours) will be combined with existing evidence about the behaviours that affect sleep health to produce the intervention with our partners. We will create the content with shift workers during several workshops. Different groups of workers will be asked to review the content created to make improvements and make sure the intervention is easy to understand and follow. To make sure the final intervention is practical for employers to offer, we will also discuss delivery challenges with both employers and staff. A focus group and interviews with employers will aim to improve their awareness of how best to address mental health and sleep problems for shift-work employees. A training handbook will also be developed for employers, which will help guide the delivery of the programme after the research development has finished.