Effect of Night Shift on the Quality of Life of Health Care Workers in Bhopal City w.s.r. to Nidra Vega – A Pilot Study.

Abstract

Background: Vega (natural urges) is a unique concept of Ayurveda and  according to Acharya Vagbhatta all disease arises from ‘Vega -Vidharana’ (suppression of natural urges). Night duty is the part and parcel of health  care workers life so knowingly or unknowingly they are doing Nidra  Vegadharana (Holding of sleep Urge). Thus, the present research work is  planned to assess the effect of Night Shift in health care workers and its  impact on Quality of Life. Objective: To find-out the impact of Night Shift on Quality of Life in health  care workers. To identify symptoms of Nidra Vegadharan (Holding of sleep  Urge) mentioned in Brihattrayi in Night shift health workers. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out as a  pilot study among 30 health care workers who are doing night shift. To  assess QoL, World Health Organization Quality of Life Questionnaire was  used and assessment of other symptoms was done based on Classical Nidra  Vegadharana (Holding of sleep Urge) Symptoms.Result: Domain wise QoL showed that maximum 60% had intermediate  physical QoL, maximum 73.3% had intermediate psychological QoL,  maximum 60.6% had very weak social QoL and maximum 70% had  intermediate environmental QoL. No one has good score of physical and  psychological QoL and only 10% and 6.66% had good social and  environment QoL respectively. Conclusion: In this pilot study maximum night shift health workers had  very weak, weak, or intermediate QoL so it can be concluded that Night  shift has an impact on the health status of health care workers.