A time to rest, a time to dine: sleep, time-restricted eating, and cardiometabolic health

CC Gupta, GE Vincent, AM Coates, S Khalesi, C Irwin… - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) poses a serious health and economic burden worldwide.
Modifiable lifestyle factors are a focus of research into reducing the burden of CVD, with diet …

Safety implications of fatigue and sleep inertia for emergency services personnel

D Dawson, SA Ferguson, GE Vincent - Sleep medicine reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Emergency services present a unique operational environment for the management of
fatigue and sleep inertia. Communities request and often expect the provision of emergency …

The well-being of gig workers in the sharing economy during COVID-19

Y Li, S Xu, Y Yu, R Meadows - International Journal of Contemporary …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this study is to deepen our understanding of the well-being of
transient organizations/groups and to use this to develop a novel conceptual framework of …

Does knowledge of sleep hygiene recommendations match behaviour in Australian shift workers? A cross-sectional study

CM Rampling, CC Gupta, AE Shriane, SA Ferguson… - BMJ open, 2022 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives Shiftworkers routinely obtain inadequate sleep, which has major health
consequences. Sleep hygiene describes a range of behaviours, lifestyle and environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Who is 'on-call'in Australia? A new classification approach for on-call employment in future population-level studies

M Sprajcer, SL Appleton, RJ Adams, TK Gill… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background On-call research and guidance materials typically focus on 'traditional'on-call
work (eg, emergency services, healthcare). However, given the increasing prevalence of …

“I want to be safe and not still half asleep”: Exploring practical countermeasures to manage the risk of sleep inertia for emergency service personnel using a mixed …

K Kovac, GE Vincent, JL Paterson… - Nature and science of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose The aim of this exploratory cross-sectional mixed methods study was to determine
1) whether sleep inertia, the temporary state of impaired vigilance performance upon …

[HTML][HTML] Daily variation in sleepiness among firefighters while working the 24/48 and 48/96 shift schedules

JM Billings, SA Jahnke, CK Haddock - Safety science, 2024 - Elsevier
Objective To assess the daily relationship between prior-night total sleep time (TST) and
next-day, afternoon sleep propensity among firefighters operating from two popular fire …

Intra-tour variation of firefighter sleep duration and sleep-wake cycle within the 24/48 and 48/96 shift schedules

JM Billings, CK Haddock, SA Jahnke - Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Objective The purpose of this paper is to investigate intra-tour variation in total sleep time
(TST) and sleep-wake cycle among US firefighters working the 24 hours on and 48 hours off …

“I need to be alert at night to provide care”: Factors associated with problematic sleep among young Australian caregivers

JL Paterson, MJW Thomas, AC Reynolds… - Behavioral Sleep …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives There is increased recognition that young people (< 25 years) may occupy a
carer role for family or others with health conditions or disability. This is often in addition to …

On-call work and depressive mood: A cross-sectional survey among rural migrant workers in China

Q Xu, L Wang, Y Zhang, X Jiang - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction With the rapid development of China's “gig economy,” the on-call work model
has grown increasingly prevalent in China and has attracted a large number of rural migrant …