Health risks due to working hours : are the workers health more at a risk when the workers do the night and shift work, in comparison to the workers who do non-shift work / Fathimath Reem

Abstract:

The aim for this current research is to identify if there were any differences to the health risks for Maldivian workers due to the working hours, which is to the workers who do the night and shift work and for those who do the non-shift duties. The health risks that is concentrated for this current research is obesity, fatigue, and sleep disorder. The research is a quantitative research and a sample of 60 workers was chosen randomly. The number of workers from each group of night and shift work, and non-shift work is 30. The null hypothesis for this current research is that there is no difference between health risk of night and shift workers, and non-shift workers. The Chi-Square test was performed to test the hypothesis. Due to the P-value calculated for the three areas, obesity, fatigue, and sleep disorder being greater than 0.05, failed to reject the null hypothesis of this current research. The implication from the statistical analysis is that there were no differences to the workers' health either by working in night and shift duties or non-shift duties.

Keywords: night and shift work, health risks, obesity, fatigue, sleep disorder.