Fire Fighter Fatigue Management Program: Operation Fight Fatigue
Shift-Work Sleep Disorder, Insomnia, Restless Leg Syndrome
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Shift-Work Sleep Disorder focused on measuring sleep, firefighter, fire, apnea, insomnia, shift, narcolepsy, restless leg, rls, fatigue, Optalert, actigraph, actigraphy, actiwatch, safety, sleepiness, sleepy, work, hours, FEMA, drowsy
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Must be a fire department employee at a participating fire department.
Exclusion Criteria:
- May not be 17 years of age or younger.
- Will not be included if not a firefighter.
Sites / Locations
- Division of Sleep Medicine; Brigham and Women's Hospital
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Active Comparator
Intervention
Control
Firefighters in this group will receive at the beginning of the study an introduction to the study, sleep education, sleep disorder screening survey, health survey, increased sleep opportunities at their fire department, followed later by physiological monitoring of a portion of the firefighters, and then finally an 'end of year' survey at the end of the study.
Firefighters in this group will only receive an introduction to the study and a health survey, followed later by physiological monitoring of a portion of the firefighters, and then at the end of the study will receive the sleep disorders screening survey, sleep education (Intervention group received screening survey and education much earlier at the beginning of the study), and an 'end of year' survey. None of these firefighters will receive the increased sleep opportunities as the Intervention group will.