Sensitivity, reliability and the effects of diurnal variation on a test battery of field usable upper limb fatigue measures

Ergonomics

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 923-939

  Yung, Marcus ^a   Wells, Richard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

diurnal fluctuations; Fatigue; field testing; measurement; reliability

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC BATTERIES; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; MEASUREMENTS; MUSCLE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DESIGN AND EVALUATIONS; DIURNAL FLUCTUATIONS; DIURNAL VARIATION; FIELD TESTING; LIMITED INFORMATION; MEASUREMENT TOOLS; PRODUCTION QUALITY; WORK-RELATED MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS;

RELIABILITY;

ADULT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EVALUATION STUDY; EXERCISE TEST; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; TREMOR; UPPER LIMB; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EXERCISE TEST; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PERCEPTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TREMOR; UPPER EXTREMITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84992699513     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2016.1243734     Document Type: Article

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