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Background: Sleep is a vital process in human physiology. The prevalence of sleep problems and sleep disorders are increasing day by day. In modern-society, the shift working is also growing to provide service to people round the clock. The effects of shift work especially night shifts are sleep difficulties, poor quality of sleep, daytime sleepiness, impaired cognition, fatigue, increased risk of injuries and accident and poor quality of life. Chronic Sleep deprivation following night shifts may lead to serious health problems like hypertension, diabetes, heart attack, stroke, depression and cancers. The nurses as shift workers are overburdened in hospitals suffer from poor sleep quality and may suffer from these type of health problems. Objectives: The aim of the study was to compare sleep quality among night shift and morning shift female nurses. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in the Department of Physiology, Dhaka Medical College, Dhaka from January 2019 to December 2019. A total 250 adult female nurses were included in this study based on inclusion and exclusion criteria with age ranging 24-50 years. Group A was selected from female nurses who work night shifts from 8.00 p. m. to 8.00 a. m. in different wards of Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics & Gynaecology. Group B was consisted of female nurses who work in morning-shifts from 8.00 a. m. to 2.00 p.m. in Out-patient departments and different wards of Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics & Gynaecology. A data collection form was designed and prepared including General characteristics of nurses and Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) Questionnaire. Informed written consent was taken from each participant. Then the subject was interviewed in details and recorded in the predesigned data collection form. Statistical analyses of the data was obtained by using window-based Microsoft Excel and Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS-26). Results: The statistical analysis of data were done .......
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