Current state of Readiness: Contemplation
Individuals openly state their intent to change within the next 6 months and are more aware of the benefits of changing, but remain aware of the costs.
Our Goal: To encourage and motivate you to make specific plans.
Sleep Deprivation
- Not getting enough sleep can make you feel out of sorts and unfocused.
- It can even make you feel out of sync with situations and people around you, whether it be family, friends, or coworkers.
- It can make it hard to concentrate and can negatively impact your work performance.
How Sleep Loss Affects You
- YOUR HEALTH
- Increased risk for depression
- YOUR WORK
- More likelihood of work errors, impaired concentration, slowed reaction time and poorer work performance
- YOUR RELATIONSHIPS
- Impatience
- Being cranky or irritable
- YOUR SAFETY
- Higher incidence of workplace accidents, traffic accidents and microsleeps
- Microsleeps: Fleeting, uncontrollable episodes of sleep occurring when one is awake.
- Higher incidence of workplace accidents, traffic accidents and microsleeps
Consequences of Sleep Deprivation
- Decreased Performance and Alertness
- Reducing your nighttime sleep by as little as one and a half hours for just one night could result in a reduction of daytime alertness by as much as 32%.
- Occupational Injury
- Contributes to a greater than twofold higher risk of sustaining an occupational injury.
- Automobile Injury
- The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that each year drowsy driving is responsible for at least 100,000 automobile crashes, 71,000 injuries, and 1,550 fatalities.
