PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Aron Peter Sherry AU - Stacy A Clemes AU - Yu-Ling Chen AU - Charlotte Edwardson AU - Laura J Gray AU - Amber Guest AU - James King AU - Alex V Rowlands AU - Katharina Ruettger AU - Mohsen Sayyah AU - Veronica Varela-Mato AU - Iuliana Hartescu TI - Sleep duration and sleep efficiency in UK long-distance heavy goods vehicle drivers AID - 10.1136/oemed-2021-107643 DP - 2022 Feb 01 TA - Occupational and Environmental Medicine PG - 109--115 VI - 79 IP - 2 4099 - http://oem.bmj.com/content/79/2/109.short 4100 - http://oem.bmj.com/content/79/2/109.full SO - Occup Environ Med2022 Feb 01; 79 AB - Objectives To profile sleep duration and sleep efficiency in UK long-distance heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers and explore demographic, occupational and lifestyle predictors of sleep.Methods Cross-sectional analyses were carried out on 329 HGV drivers (98.5% men) recruited across an international logistics company within the midland’s region, UK. Sleep duration and efficiency were assessed via wrist-worn accelerometry (GENEActiv) over 8 days. Proportions of drivers with short sleep duration (<6 hour/24 hours and <7 hour/24 hours) and inadequate sleep efficiency (<85%) were calculated. Demographic, occupational and lifestyle data were collected via questionnaires and device-based measures. Logistic regression assessed predictors of short sleep duration and inadequate sleep efficiency.Results 58% of drivers had a mean sleep duration of <6 hour/24 hours, 91% demonstrated <7-hour sleep/24 hours and 72% achieved <85% sleep efficiency. Sleeping <6 hour/24 hours was less likely in morning (OR 0.45, 95% CI 0.21 to 0.94) and afternoon (OR 0.24, CI 0.10 to 0.60) shift workers (vs night) and if never smoked (vs current smokers) (OR 0.45, CI –0.22 to 0.92). The likelihood of sleeping <7 hour/24 hours reduced with age (OR 0.92, CI 0.87 to 0.98). The likelihood of presenting inadequate sleep efficiency reduced with age (OR 0.96, CI 0.93 to 0.99) and overweight body mass index category (vs obese) (OR 0.47, CI 0.27 to 0.82).Conclusions The high prevalence of short sleep duration and insufficient sleep quality (efficiency) rate suggest that many HGV drivers have increased risk of excessive daytime sleepiness, road traffic accidents and chronic disease. Future sleep research in UK HGV cohorts is warranted given the road safety and public health implications.Data are available on reasonable request. Anonymised participants data were collected in a protected database and are available on reasonable request from AS (a.p.sherry@lboro.ac.uk).