Sleep is important to ensure the brain and body function well. Lack of sleep can affect your memory, mental abilities, motor skills, work performance and mood. Therefore, getting enough sleep is essential to maintain optimal performance in these areas. Improving and maintaining good sleep quality can improve the performance of health workers who work in shifts in hospitals to provide the best service to patients. One of the bad impacts of implementing a shiftwork system is the decrease in sleep quality for health workers who wors in shifts in hospitals. The prevalence of sleep quality disorders in nurses who work in hospitals with a work pattern of 2 shifts per day is 63.9%. This means that more than half of the nurses who work with this pattern experience problems with sleep quality. Meanwhile, the prevalence of sleep quality disorders in nurses who work with a work pattern of 3 shifts per day is 43%. Health workers work shifts can affect their sleep quality, therefore health workers are advised to maintain sleep quality and improve shift patterns in accordance with American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) recommendations there must be an off period in one shift week shiftworkers at the hospital.

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