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Sustaining Sleep: Results From the Randomized Controlled Work, Family, and Health Study
Journal Of Occupational Health Psychology
  • Tori L. Crain, Colorado State University
  • Leslie B. Hammer, Portland State University
  • Todd Bodner, Portland State University
  • Ryan Olson, Oregon Health and Science University
  • Ellen Ernst Kossek, Purdue University
  • Phyllis Moen, University of Minnesota
  • Orfeu M. Buxton, The Pennsylvania State University
Document Type
Citation
Publication Date
2-1-2019
Disciplines
Abstract

Although calls for intervention designs are numerous within the organizational literature and increasing efforts are being made to conduct rigorous randomized controlled trials, existing studies have rarely evaluated the long-term sustainability of workplace health intervention outcomes, or mechanisms of this process. This is especially the case with regard to objective and subjective sleep outcomes. We hypothesized that a work-family intervention would increase both self-reported and objective actigraphic measures of sleep quantity and sleep quality at 6 and 18 months post-baseline in a sample of information technology workers from a U.S. Fortune 500 company. Significant intervention effects were found on objective actigraphic total sleep time and self-reported sleep insufficiency at the 6- and 18-month follow-up, with no significant decay occurring over time. However, no significant intervention effects were found for objective actigraphic wake after sleep onset or self-reported insomnia symptoms. A significant indirect effect was found for the effect of the intervention on objective actigraphic total sleep time through the proximal intervention target of 6-month control over work schedule and subsequent more distal 12-month family time adequacy. These results highlight the value of long-term occupational health intervention research, while also highlighting the utility of this work-family intervention with respect to some aspects of sleep. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

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© 2019 American Psychological Association

DOI
10.1037/ocp0000104
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/28145
Citation Information
Crain, T. L., Hammer, L. B., Bodner, T., Olson, R., Kossek, E. E., Moen, P., & Buxton, O. M. (2019). Sustaining sleep: Results from the randomized controlled work, family, and health study. Journal Of Occupational Health Psychology, 24(1), 180–197. https://doi.org/10.1037/ocp0000122