The Cheryl Spencer Institute for Nursing Research
Tel: 04-6647904 | email: nurs_res@univ.haifa.ac.il
Prof. Tamar Shochat
Head, Department of Nursing
tshochat@univ.haifa.ac.il
Tel: +972-4-8288010
Research Interests
Higher Education
Recent Publications
Research Interests
- Insomnia
- Sleep and metabolism
- shiftwork
Higher Education
1987-1990 | University of Haifa, Department of Psychology and General B.A. | B.A. | 1990 (Cum Laude) |
1992-1997 | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Behavioral Biology, Mentor: Professor Peretz Lavie | D.Sc. (direct doctoral program) | Nov. 16, 1997 |
1997-2000 | University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Mentor: Professor Sonia Ancoli-Israel | Post Doctoral Fellowship | 2000 |
Recent Publications
- Zaslavsky, O., LaCroix, A.Z., Hale, L., Tindle, H., & Shochat, T. (2015). Longitudinal changes in insomnia status and incidence of physical, emotional or mixed impairment. Sleep Medicine 16(3):364-71.
- Aviram, J., Shochat, T. & Pud, D. (2015). Pain sensitivity in healthy young men is modified by time-of-day and is modality dependent. Pain Medicine 16(6):1137-44.
- Nadir, Y., Sacharov, G., Hoffman, R., Keren-Politansky, A., Tzoran, I., Brenner, B. & Shochat, T. (2015). Heparanase procoagulant activity, factor Xa and plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 are increased in shift work female nurses. Annals of Haematology 94(7):1213-9.
- Ram-Vlasov, N., Tzischinsky, O., Green, A. & Shochat, T. (2016). Creativity and habitual sleep patterns among art and social sciences undergraduate students. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 10(3):270-7.
- * Agmon, M., Shochat, T. & Kizony, R. (2016). Sleep quality is associated with walking under dual-task, but not single-task performance. Gait and Posture 49:127-31.
- Shochat, T., Shefer-Hilel, G.#, & Zisberg, A. (2016). Relationships between body mass index and sleep quality and duration in adults 70 years and older. Sleep Health, 2(4), 266-271.
- Shochat, T., Barker, D.H., Sharkey, K.M., Van Reen, E., Roane, B.M., & Carskadon, M.A. (2017). An Approach to Understanding Sleep and Depressed Mood in Adolescents: Person-Centered Sleep Classification. Journal of Sleep Research, 26(6):709-717. doi: 10.1111/jsr.12550.. (IF: 3.433. Clinical Neurology: 60/197 (Q2); Neurosceince: 100/161 (Q3)).
- Vidal, H., & Shochat, T. (2017). Early to bed, early to rise: Sleep perceptions, patterns and related behaviors in ultra-orthodox Jewish adolescents in Israel. Sleep Health 3, 458-464.
- Zion, N., Drach Zahavy, A., & Shochat, T. (2018). Who is sleepier on the nightshift? The influence of bio-psycho-social factors on subjective sleepiness of female nurses during the night shift. Ergonomics, 61:7, 1004-1014, DOI: 1080/00140139.2017.1418027 (IF: 2.39)
- * Aviram, J., & Shochat, T. (2018). Longer Sleep Duration Is Associated with Increased Cold Pain Perception during the Day in Healthy Young Men. Sleep & Vigilance 2:71-78. org/10.1007/s41782-018-0040-2
- * Zion, N., & Shochat, T. (2018). Cognitive functioning of female nurses during the night shift: the impact of age, clock time, time awake and subjective sleepiness. Chronobiology International, 35(11):1595-1607. DOI: 10.1080/07420528.2018.1497642 (IF: 2.643)
- * Roth, N., Lev-Weizel, R., & Shochat, T. (2019). “How Do You Sleep?” Sleep in Self-Figure Drawings of Young Adolescents in Residential Care Facilities- An Exploratory Study. Sleep Medicine 60: 116-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2019.01.028. (IF: 3.395)
- Zion, N., & Shochat, T. (2019). Let them sleep: The effects of a scheduled nap during the night shift on sleepiness and cognition in hospital nurses. Journal of Advanced Nursing (in press). (IF: 2.267, Q1)
- Shochat, T., Hadish-Shogan, S., Banin, M., Recanati, A., & Tzischinsky, O. (2019). Burnout, sleep and sleepiness during day and night shifts in transition from 8- to 12-hour shift rosters among airline ground crew managers. Clocks & Sleep 1(2), 226-239; https://doi.org/10.3390/clockssleep1020020.
- Shochat, T., Santhi, N., Herer, P., Flavell, S.A., Skeldon, A.C., Dijk, D-J. (2019). Human sleep timing in late autumn and late spring associates with light exposure rather than sun time in college students. Frontiers in Neuroscience.
- Gur-Yaish, N., Cohen, D., & Shochat, T. (2020) Attachment orientations and sleep patterns: The moderating role of exchanges with spouse. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 37(4):1282–1295.
- Sznitman, S.R., Shochat, T., & Greene, T. (2020) Is time elapsed between cannabis use and sleep start time associated with sleep continuity? An experience sampling method. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 208(1):107846.
- Tzemah Shahar, R., Koren, O., Matarasso, S., Shochat, T., Magzal, F. Tamir, S., & Agmon, M. (2020) Attributes of physical activity and gut-microbiome in adults: A systematic review. International Journal of Sports Medicine1055/a-1157-9257.
- Magzal, F., Even, C., Asraf, K., Haimov, I., Agmon, M., Shochat, T., Tamir, S. (2021). Associations between fecal short-chain fatty acids and sleep continuity in older adults with insomnia. Scientific Reports 11(1):4052.
- Kirshner, D., Kizony, R. Gil, E. Asraf, K., Krasovsky, T., Haimov, I., Shochat, T., & Agmon, M. (2021). Why do they fall? The impact of insomnia on gait of older adults: a case-control study. Nature & Science of Sleep 13:329-338. (IF=4.375, Clinical Neurology: R=40/204, Q1).
- Lukačišinová, A., Fialová, D., Peel, N.M., Hubbard, R.E., Brkic, J., Onder, G., Topinková, E., Gindin, J., Shochat, T., Gray, L., & Bernabei, R. (2021). The prevalence and prescribing patterns of benzodiazepines and Z-drugs in older nursing home residents in different European countries and Israel: retrospective results from the EU SHELTER study. BMC Geriatrics. 21(1):277.