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. 2010;48(6):758-65.
doi: 10.2486/indhealth.ms1083. Epub 2010 Jul 1.

Effect of brief sleep hygiene education for workers of an information technology company

Mitsuru Kakinuma  1 , Masaya Takahashi, Noritada Kato, Yutaka Aratake, Mayumi Watanabe, Yumi Ishikawa, Reiko Kojima, Michi Shibaoka, Katsutoshi Tanaka
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Effect of brief sleep hygiene education for workers of an information technology company

Mitsuru Kakinuma et al. Ind Health. 2010.
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Abstract

To investigate the effects of sleep hygiene education for workers of an information technology (IT) company, we conducted a controlled clinical trial providing 581 workers one-hour sleep hygiene education. The contents of the sleep hygiene education program were a review of sleep habits, provide sleep hygiene education, and the establishment of sleep habit goals. A self-report questionnaire was used to measure outcomes including the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Karolinska Sleepiness Scale (KSS), Checklist Individual Strength (CIS), Center for Epidemiologic Studies for Depression (CES-D), and mean sleep duration on weekdays before and 4 wk after the intervention. A total of 391 participants were included in the analysis, with 214 participants in the sleep hygiene education group and 177 in the waiting list group. KSS score at 2 P.M. decreased by 0.42 points in the sleep hygiene education group, but increased by 0.08 points in the waiting list group, showing a significant effect size of 0.50 (95%CI, -0.97 to -0.04, p<0.05). PSQI score also improved, but the inter-group difference was not statically significant. The present study provides preliminary evidence that brief sleep hygiene education may improve afternoon sleepiness at work, but not sleep at night for IT workers.

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