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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 16.
Published in final edited form as: Chronobiol Int. 2011 May;28(5):446–457. doi: 10.3109/07420528.2011.573112

Table 2. Correlations between long-term and short-term shiftwork.

Long-term 5-Day 14-Day



Daytime Afternoon shifts Night shifts Total hours Shift changes Daytime Afternoon shifts Night shifts Daytime Afternoon shifts
Long-term Afternoon −0.60
shifts (<0.01)
Night shifts −0.47 0.10
(<0.01) (0.44)
Total hours 0.13 0.17 −0.01
(0.32) (0.18) (0.96)
Shift changes −0.17 0.64 0.05 0.10
(0.17) (<.01) (0.70) (.042)
5-Day Daytime 0.34 −0.26 <−0.01 0.09 −0.17
(<.01) (0.03) (0.99) (0.50) (0.17)
Afternoon −0.49 0.63 0.12 0.11 0.26 −0.25
shifts (<0.01) (<0.01) (0.34) (0.38) (0.03) (0.04)
Night shifts −0.13 −0.22 0.39 <0.01 −0.07 −0.23 −0.04
(0.31) (0.08) (<0.01) (0.98) (0.55) (0.06) (0.73)
14-Day Daytime 0.29 −0.17 0.03 0.11 −0.18 0.90 −0.12 −0.26
(0.02) (0.17) (0.84) (0.37) (0.16) (<0.01) (0.34) (0.03)
Afternoon −0.55 0.52 0.19 0.10 0.17 −0.22 0.88 0.05 −0.14
shifts (<0.01) (<0.01) (0.13) (0.44) (0.18) (0.08) (<0.01) (0.71) (0.27)
Night shifts −0.12 −0.24 0.39 −0.07 −0.05 −0.20 −0.04 0.85 −0.27 0.07
(0.36) (0.06) (<0.01) (0.57) (0.73) (0.10) (0.73) (<0.01) (0.03) (0.57)

Spearman correlation coefficients (p values) for relationships among cumulative long-term and short-term (5- and 14-day) shiftwork measures.