Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

  • Volume 34
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  • Pages.32.1-32.12
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  • 2022
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  • 1225-3618(pISSN)
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  • 2052-4374(eISSN)
The Korean Society of Occupational & Environmental Medicine (대한직업환경의학회)
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Relationship between chronotype and depressive symptoms among newly hired hospital nurses in the Republic of Korea

  • Semi Lee (Department of Environmental Medicine, School of Medicine, Ewha Womans University) ;
  • Han-Na Jung (Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital) ;
  • Jia Ryu (Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Catholic Kwandong University International St. Mary's Hospital) ;
  • Woo-Chul Jung (Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital) ;
  • Yu-Mi Kim (Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Hanyang University) ;
  • Hyunjoo Kim (Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital)
  • Received : 2022.06.27
  • Accepted : 2022.09.22
  • Published : 2022.12.31
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Abstract

Background: This study was conducted to examine the relationship between chronotype and depressive symptoms to provide grounded knowledge in establishing nurses' health promotion strategies. Methods: The subjects of this study were 493 newly hired nurses working in 2 general hospitals within the university from September 2018 to September 2020. Sociodemographic and work-related characteristics were collected from a medical examination database and a self-reported questionnaire. These included sex, age, marital status, living situation, education level, alcohol consumption, physical activity, prior work experience before 3 months, workplace, and departments. To analyze the associations between the chronotype and depressive symptoms, multiple logistic regression analyses were performed to calculate odds ratios (ORs). Results: Among participants, 9.1% had depressive symptoms and 16.4% had insomnia. The subjects are divided into morningness (30.2%), intermediate (48.7%), and eveningness (21.1%). The multiple logistic regression analysis controlling for age, living status, education level, alcohol consumption, physical activity, workplace, prior work experience before 3 months, and insomnia, revealed that the OR of depressive symptoms in the eveningness group was 3.71 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.50-9.18) compared to the morningness group, and the R2 value was 0.151. It also can be confirmed that insomnia symptoms have a statistically significant effect on depressive symptoms (OR: 2.16, 95% CI: 1.03-4.52). Conclusions: Our findings suggest that evening-type nurses are more likely to have depression than morning-type nurses. We should consider interventions in a high-risk group such as the evening type nurses to reduce depressive symptoms in nurses.

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Acknowledgement

This research was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (grant number: 2018R1A2B6004110).

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