Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Shiftwork in the Norwegian petroleum industry: overcoming difficulties with family and social life – a cross sectional study | Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology BioMed Central Research Shiftwork in the Norwegian petroleum industry overcoming difficulties with family and social life - a cross sectional study Cathrine Haugene Ljosâ and Bjorn Lau Open Access Address National Institute of Occupational Health PB 8149 Dep N-0033 Oslo Norway Email Cathrine Haugene Ljosâ - cha@ Bjorn Lau - bla@ Corresponding author Published 3 August 2009 Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2009 4 22 doi 86 1745-6673-4-22 Received 20 February 2009 Accepted 3 August 2009 This article is available from http content 4 1 22 2009 Ljos and Lau licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Continuous shift schedules are required in the petroleum industry because of its dependency on uninterrupted production. Although shiftwork affects health less is known about its effects on social and domestic life. Methods Consequently we studied these relationships in a sample of 1697 response rate petroleum workers who worked onshore and offshore for a Norwegian oil and gas company. We also examined the roles of coping strategies and locus of control for handling self-reported problems with social and domestic life. A questionnaire containing scales from the Standard Shiftwork Index and Shiftwork Locus of Control was answered electronically. Results In general only a few participants reported that their shift schedule affected their social and domestic family life and several participants had enough time to spend by themselves and with their partner close family friends and children. Despite this general positive trend differences were found for shift type and individual factors such as locus of .
