The caregivers sleep less than 6 hours per night, a behavior that is not devoid of risk

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Published the 08.12.2017 at 16h52

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They take care of us, but not them. Caregivers do not sleep enough. It is the result of a study of the network Morpheus, devoted to the care of chronic disorders of sleep. 60 % of health workers are sleeping less than six hours per night. It is an hour less than the seven hours recommended. In comparison, the same study, carried out on the whole of the French, shows that 45 % of them report sleeping less than six hours per night.

880 nurses and doctors responded to an online questionnaire between January and September 2017. They were older by an average of 42 years. Half of them attribute this deficit of sleep to their work. Difficult to manage the nights of guard, the schedule extension for the caregivers ; that’s in addition to the personal obligations, especially when they have children.

The dangers of lack of sleep

Sleeping too little has consequences dangerous to the health. The risks are cardiac, infectious, or cardiovascular. But in the short term, the effects of short nights are also being seen. It is then more difficult to concentrate, appetite increases, immunity decreases, it is more emotional too. The lack of alertness, fatigue-related, may also be a risk factor of road accident. 37 % of caregivers complain of a risk of falling asleep at the wheel, according to the study. Last October, the president of the Network Morpheus, Sylvie Royant-Parola, has launched, with three colleagues, a call to the health authorities to ask a real policy of prevention on the sleep.