PerfectFit@Night

Healthcare professionals need to be present 24 hours a day to ensure continuity of care in hospitals. Therefore, many healthcare workers work night shifts. However, night work increases the risk to develop short- and long-term health problems, which endanger the sustainable employability of these workers.
Different departments of the Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC) will implement this intervention for healthcare workers with night shifts, focusing on the individual lifestyle as well as the environmental (work) context. The intervention elements are developed with a participatory research approach, combining information from literature, the outcomes of a pilot study, good practices, and interviews with hospital workers with night shifts. Both the effectiveness of the intervention on sleep, recovery, and work ability, and the implementation process will be evaluated using data from questionnaires.

Improvement of sleep, recovery, and work ability in the intervention group.

Baseline, three months, six months, nine months, twelve months, fifteen months

- E-learning
- Powernap bank/chair
- Healthy food/snacks
- Workshop concerning healthy rostering
- Indicated coaching