Kazuya Nagasaki, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Yuji Nishizaki, Masaru Kurihara, Takashi Watari, Taro Shimizu, Yu Yamamoto, Kiyoshi Shikino, Sho Fukui, Sho Nishiguchi, Kohta Katayama, Yasuharu Tokuda
Long duty hours (DH) impair sleep and negatively affect residents' health and medical safety. This cross-sectional study investigated the association among residents' DH, sleep duration, insomnia, sleep impairment, depressive symptoms, and self-reported medical errors among 5579 residents in Japan who completed the General Medicine In-Training Examination (2021) and participated in the training-environment survey. Weekly DH was classified under seven categories. Sleep duration and insomnia symptoms, from the Athens Insomnia Scale, were analysed to determine sleep impairment; depressive symptoms and medical errors were self-reported...
January 17, 2024: Scientific Reports