Impact of nap length, nap timing and sleep quality on sustaining early morning performance

Industrial Health

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 552-563

  Kubo, Tomohide ^a   Takeyama, Hidemaro ^a   Matsumoto, Shun ^b   Ebara, Takeshi ^a   Murata, Kensaburo ^a   Tachi, Norihide ^a   Itani, Toru ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Institute of Science of Labor   (Japan)

Author keywords

Countermeasure against night work; Fatigue; Nocturnal nap; Polysomnography; Shift work; Sleep inertia; Sleepiness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FATIGUE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NIGHT SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP PARAMETERS; SOMNOLENCE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; FATIGUE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SLEEP; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 34548636722     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.45.552     Document Type: Article

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