Sleep saves lives

Interesting article looking at nightly sleep and coronary calcification. Pretty scary. Here is the abstract and a notable chart. They used actigraphy (wrist devices) to measure sleep and found a big difference, as many trials have, between self reported sleep and measured sleep. Sleep one extra hour a night and drop your coronary calcium by 33% (obviously this is a statistical finding and not an intervention study, still striking).

sleep ca abstract

 

 

sleep ca graph

 

 

Burnout

Brief description of burnout types. Not medically specific. Follow the links as well.

1. Overload: The frenetic employee who works toward success until exhaustion, is most closely related to emotional venting. These individuals might try to cope with their stress by complaining about the organizational hierarchy at work, feeling as though it imposes limits on their goals and ambitions. That coping strategy, unsurprisingly, seems to lead to a stress overload and a tendency to throw in the towel.

2. Lack of Development: Most closely associated with an avoidance coping strategy. These under-challenged workers tend to manage stress by distancing themselves from work, a strategy that leads to depersonalization and cynicism — a harbinger for burning out and packing up shop.

3. Neglect: Seems to stem from a coping strategy based on giving up in the face of stress. Even though these individuals want to achieve a certain goal, they lack the motivation to plow through barriers to get to it.

In a roundup of 11 ways to beat burnout, 99u offers this breakdown of the three main types of burnout, per the Association for Psychological Science.

Pair with this essential read on how to transcend the “OK plateau” of work, then see how sleep factors into the equation.

Here is the article itself from APS.

 

 

Reference:

http://explore.noodle.org/post/83726976259/1-overload-the-frenetic-employee-who-works?utm_content=bufferef345&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer