NIGHT SHIFT

This study was aimed to determine the perceived effects of night shift on nurses' physical, psycho-social health and work performance in selected health institutions Edo State. The study adopted a descriptive cross-sectional research design and convenience sampling method was used to select one hundred and sixty-nine nurses in Central Hospital and Faith Mediplex Hospital, Benin City, Edo State. A well- structured questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection. The data was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Simple frequency and percentage were used to describe the data, while chi-square was used to test the hypotheses. The level of significance was set at p<0.05. The analysis was performed using the IBM Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 28.0 for windows. The result showed that majority of the respondents perceived night shift to have effect on their physical, psycho-social health and work performance in Central Hospital and Faith Mediplex Hospital, Benin City, Edo State. According to the results, It shows that 135(79.0%%)nurses agreed that night shift had negative on their physical health while 34(20.1%)nurses agreed that night shift had positive effect on their physical health. It shows that 124(73.4%%) nurses agreed that night shift had negative on their psychological health, while 45(26.6%)nurses agreed that night shift had positive effect on their psychological health. It shows that 117(69.2%%)nurses agreed that night shift had negative on their social health, while 52(30.8%)nurses agreed that night shift had positive effect on their social health and lastly, It shows that 135(79.9%%)nurses agreed that night shift had negative on their work performance., while 34(20.1%)nurses agreed that night shift had positive effect on their work performance. Also, sociodemographic characteristics namely sex, marital Status, educational qualification, years of experience, and religion were significantly associated with nurses’ physical health and psychological health; years of experience, cadre, ethnic group and religion was significantly associated with nurses social health. All sociodemographic variables except religion were significantly associated with nurses work performance. This study therefore, recommended that there is need for Institutions to make concerted efforts to ensure that the effect of night shift on nurses' physical, psycho-social health and work performance is assessed and taken care of as their health is important in delivery of quality care to patients.