1. Sleep complaints and fatigue of airline pilots
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David P. Gradwell, Teresa Paiva, Helena Canhão, Catarina Mestre, Cátia Reis, and Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
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030110 physiology ,0301 basic medicine ,Response rate (survey) ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Jetlag ,High prevalence ,business.industry ,Predictors ,Short Communication ,Neuroscience (miscellaneous) ,Medicine (miscellaneous) ,Sleep in non-human animals ,03 medical and health sciences ,Behavioral Neuroscience ,0302 clinical medicine ,Physical therapy ,medicine ,Prevalence ,business ,Sleep ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Shiftwork - Abstract
Open Access funded by Brazilian Association of Sleep Under a Creative Commons license © 2016 Brazilian Association of Sleep. Production and Hosting by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CCBY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)., This work aimed to determine daytime sleepiness and sleep complaints prevalence and the corresponding influence on perceived fatigue and to evaluate the influence of sociodemographic parameters and labour variables on sleep complaints, sleepiness and fatigue. A questionnaire was developed including socio-economic and labour issues and instruments, focused in sleep and fatigue. The response rate was 32% and the final sample had 435 pilots. The prevalence of sleep complaints was 34.9%, daytime sleepiness 59.3% and fatigue 90.6%. The high prevalence of sleep complaints, sleepiness and fatigue was disclosed in pilots, with those who fly short/medium having an added risk of fatigue.
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- 2016
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