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DETRIMENTAL SLEEP SCHEDULES IN FIREFIGHTERS

Abstract

Makenzie Corgan, Sarah Brown, Paige Bramblett, Ben Lloyd, Lainey Hunnicutt, Caroline Smith, FACSM, Scott Collier, FACSM. Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.

The Firefighter (FF) occupation leads to poor sleep quality and architecture. Disturbed sleep in these occupations can lead to poor outcomes including a series of chronic diseases and illnesses such as CVD. Purpose: The aims were 1) to quantify the sleep of this occupation and 2) compare it to age-matched normative data. Methods: 10 male FF completed3 nights of polysomnography recordings (Sleep ProfilerTM) in their own bed or barracks. A rmAnova was used to determine differences in sleep values and a Bonferroni correction with significance set at p<0.05. Results: Three important variables; deep sleep (FF: 2.7 +/-1.4 vs. 3.0 +/- 1.0 hrs), rapid eye movement (FF: 1.1 +/- 0.7 vs 1.1 +/- 0.5 hrs), and spindle duration (FF: 6.0 +/- 10.3 vs. 7.6 +/- 7.8 Hz.) for FF was statistically and/or clinically significant between sleep at home or in the barracks and between night and day shifts. All sleep results were significantly more deleterious when compared to normative data. Conclusions: These data demonstrate that firefighters show poor sleep quality and architecture. A firefighters’ decreased sleep quality and architecture may be due to their effects of sleep shift. These results, when compared to age-matched normative data show clinical manifestations of disturbed sleep in the FF populations.

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