The Effect of Meal Frequency and Glycemic Index During the Night Shift on Alertness, Hunger, and Gastrointestinal Complaints in Female Health Care Workers-A Two-Armed Randomized Crossover Trial.

Background: Nutrition strategies for night-shift workers could optimize alertness and minimize hunger and reduce gastrointestinal complaints, enhancing safety and well-being.

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the effects of 1 or 3 small meals, with either low or high glycemic index (GI), compared with no meal, on alertness, hunger, and gastrointestinal complaints during the night shift.

Methods: Fifty-one female health care workers, aged 18 to 61 y, participated in a 2-armed randomized crossover design.

Dietary taste patterns and diet quality of female nurses around the night shift.

Purpose: Night shift workers are at risk of making poor food choices: e.g. sleep deprivation may lead to higher food intake with innate preferred tastes, such as sweet, savoury and fatty foods.

The Effect of Meal Glycemic Index and Meal Frequency on Glycemic Control and Variability in Female Nurses Working Night Shifts: A Two-Arm Randomized Cross-Over Trial.

Background: Night shift workers are exposed to circadian disruption, which contributes to impaired glucose tolerance. Although fasting during the night shift improves glucose homeostasis, adhering to this dietary strategy may be challenging.

Objectives: This study evaluated the effect of fasting compared with the consumption of meals with different combinations of glycemic index (GI, low or high) and frequency (1 or 3 times) during the night shift on continuous glucose monitoring metrics.

Macronutrient intake and alertness during night shifts - the time interval matters.

Background: Working night shifts is associated with higher safety risks due to shift work-related fatigue. Nutrition, especially certain (macro) nutrient compositions, has been suggested to reduce fatigue, however, results of studies are contradictory. This could be explained by differences in the time interval investigated between the consumption of a meal and measurement of cognitive performance.

Development and evaluation of a diet quality screener to assess adherence to the Dutch food-based dietary guidelines.

The Eetscore FFQ was developed to score the Dutch Healthy Diet index 2015 (DHD2015-index) representing the Dutch food-based dietary guidelines of 2015. This paper describes the development of the Eetscore FFQ, a short screener assessing diet quality, examines associations between diet quality and participants' characteristics, and evaluates the relative validity and reproducibility of the Eetscore FFQ in a cross-sectional study with Dutch adults. The study sample consisted of 751 participants, aged 19-91 years, recruited from the EetMeetWeet research panel.

The association between eating frequency with alertness and gastrointestinal complaints in nurses during the night shift.

We investigated the association of the number of eating occasions and energy intake with alertness and gastrointestinal (GI) complaints in nurses during their night shift. During this observational study we collected data on anthropometrics and demographics, eating frequency, energy intake, alertness and GI complaints in 118 healthy female nurses, aged 20 to 61 years. Nurses completed an alertness test (psychomotor vigilance task) during the night shift and a 24-hr dietary recall and a questionnaire about GI complaints after the night shift.