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On‐call work is used to manage around the clock working requirements in a variety of industries. Often, tasks that must be performed while on‐call are highly important, difficult and/or stressful by nature and, as such, may impact the level of anxiety that is experienced by on‐call workers. Heightened anxiety is associated with poor sleep, which affects next‐day cognitive performance. Twenty‐four...
This study investigated how the chance of missing an alarm affects pre-bed anxiety, sleep and next day cognitive performance during on-call shifts. Participants (n = 24) completed one adaptation night, one control night and two on-call nights in a time-isolated sleep laboratory. On one of the on-call nights, participants were informed that they would be woken by a loud alarm that they would definitely...
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