High Need for Recovery from Work and Sleep Problems Are Associated with Workers' Unhealthy Dietary Habits

Overview

Journal Public Health Nutr

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Date 2020 May 15

PMID 32404233

Citations 5

Authors

Katri Hemio

Jaana Lindstrom

Markku Peltonen

Mikko Harma

Katriina Viitasalo

Sampsa Puttonen

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Abstract

Objective: We aimed to examine the association of recovery from work and sleep with workers' dietary habits.

Design: Cross-sectional study. Need for recovery (NFR) from work was assessed with a validated questionnaire. Sleep was assessed with five questions from the Nordic Sleep Questionnaire and sleep quality question. Dietary habits were estimated using a validated sixteen food groups-containing questionnaire. Ordered logistic regression was used to explore the associations of NFR and sleep with dietary habits adjusted for age, education, marital status, work schedule, working full or part time and occupation.

Setting: Follow-up visits of type 2 diabetes prevention study cohort in a Finnish airline company.

Participants: The study included 737 men and 605 women.

Results: Poor recovery from work was associated with a higher eating frequency (OR = 1·03, 95 % CI 1·00, 1·06), higher intake of fast food (OR = 1·05, 95 % CI 1·02, 1·08) and sweets (OR = 1·05, 95 % CI 1·02, 1·08) as well as lower intake of vegetables (OR = 0·96, 95 % CI 0·93, 0·98) and fruits (OR = 0·96, 95 % CI 0·93, 0·98) among men. In women, poor recovery from work was associated with higher fast food (OR = 1·06, 95 % CI 1·02, 1·09) and desserts consumption (OR = 1·04, 95 % CI 1·00, 1·07). Among men and women, sleep problems were associated with higher eating frequency (men: OR = 1·04, 95 % CI 1·00, 1·07, women: OR = 1·06, 95 % CI 1·02, 1·11), consumption of fast food (men: OR = 1·07, 95 % CI 1·04, 1·11, women: OR = 1·06, 95 % CI 1·02, 1·10) and sweets (men: OR = 1·05, 95 % CI 1·01, 1·08, women: OR = 1·04, 95 % CI 1·00, 1·08).

Conclusions: Poor recovery from work and sleep problems were associated with unfavourable dietary habits especially in men.

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