Sleepiness, Long Distance Commuting and Night Work as Predictors of Driving Performance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Di Milia, Lee ^a   Rogers, Naomi L ^a   Åkerstedt, Torbjörn ^b  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DRIVING ABILITY; EPWORTH SLEEPINESS SCALE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; KAROLINSKA SLEEPINESS SCALE; LONG DISTANCE COMMUTING; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; NIGHT WORK; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; SLEEP TIME; SOMNOLENCE; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; RURAL POPULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 84866702324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045856     Document Type: Article

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