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A coffee and catnap keep you sharp on the nightshift, study suggests:
Lead researcher, Dr Stephanie Centofanti from UniSA Online and the Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory at UniSA says the finding could help counteract the kind of sleep inertia that is experienced by many shiftworkers.
[...] "A 'caffeine-nap' (or 'caff-nap') could be a viable alternative -- by drinking a coffee before taking a nap, shiftworkers can gain the benefits of a 20-30-minute nap then the perk of the caffeine when they wake. It's a win-win."
The small pilot study tested the impact of 200 mg of caffeine (equivalent to 1-2 regular cups of coffee) consumed by participants just before a 3.30am 30-minute nap, comparing results with a group that took a placebo.
Participants taking a 'caffeine-nap' showed marked improvements in both performance and alertness, indicating the potential of a 'caffeine-nap' to counteract sleep grogginess.
Journal Reference:
Stephanie Centofanti, Siobhan Banks, et al.A pilot study investigating the impact of a caffeine-nap on alertness during a simulated night shift, Chronobiology International (DOI: 10.1080/07420528.2020.1804922)
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Sunday August 30 2020, @04:59PM (5 children)
Pretty much what AC said about bosses. Our company is so dead-set against sleep, that there is a policy against sleeping in your car in the parking lot, or nodding off during lunch break. If your eyes are closed for more than 1/4 minute, you're suspected of sleeping. A full minute confirms the suspicion. "Get your sleep during the day, and be alert when you arrive at work!"
Yeah, right. Younger adults especially, who have kids at home? Forget about a good sleep during the day. Even I have my difficulties getting rest during the day, and I have no young children in the house!
I'll disagree with AC about qualified personnel on the night shifts. Whatever metrics are used to measure production, we out perform 1st and 2nd shift, most of the time. In fact, the metrics are changed from time to time, because 1st shift needs to find the metric at which they excel. It still hasn't happened in the fifteen years I've been here. Sometimes, they'll beat our production numbers, but they never "excel".
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2020, @05:58PM (3 children)
This is oftentimes the case. It's in part a byproduct of the attitude that everybody needs to work 40 hours a week in order to justify their existence, even though studies regularly confirm that there's only about half that much work being done in typical offices. a 20-30 hour workweek would likely result in just as much work being done in those companies.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday August 30 2020, @10:43PM (1 child)
Note: not all the work (that the society needs) happens in the offices.</pedantic>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2020, @07:56AM
Pedantic²: AC never said that office work is all our society needs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2020, @12:43PM
Maybe. But what I bet would happen is that a 20-30 hour workweek would then cause about 10-20 hours of productive work to occur, and the subsequent necessity to hire twice the number of workers to actually get everything done.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2020, @11:39PM
See? There's the proof, right there!