Women’s Issues in Transportation: Summary of the 4th International Conference, Volume 2: Technical Papers (2011) / Chapter Skim
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34 Postpartum Fatigue and Driving Relating experiences, Thoughts, and Opinions 12 Weeks After birth Kerrie Livingstone, Kerry Armstrong, Patricia Obst, and Simon Smith, Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety, Queensland, Australia Fatigue in the postnatal period is such a common experience for most mothers that the term "postpartum fatigue" (PPF) has been coined to describe it.
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35POSTPARTUM FATIGUE AND DRIVING between levels of acute driver sleepiness and the risk of an injury crash (10)
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36 wOMEN'S ISSUES IN TRANSPORTATION, VOLUME 2 formance impairments induced by total sleep deprivation and those induced by alcohol intoxication (45)
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37POSTPARTUM FATIGUE AND DRIVING explore the issues related to PPF. As there was no known previous research on PPF, the researchers were unable to draw on previous questionnaires.
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38 wOMEN'S ISSUES IN TRANSPORTATION, VOLUME 2 Lack of sleep is more mechanical, when the body just says ‘that's it.' Sleep could be likened to hunger or thirst, just a certain point where the body will just shut down. with fatigue, all sorts of an emotional spectrum of feelings .
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39POSTPARTUM FATIGUE AND DRIVING and the impact this had on the mothers' life functioning. It appears that new mothers have difficulty in concentrating; one mother described it as the "fuzziness in your head" (Participant 2)
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40 wOMEN'S ISSUES IN TRANSPORTATION, VOLUME 2 really knocks my concentration. I wish I could have a glass screen up so I couldn't hear them.
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41POSTPARTUM FATIGUE AND DRIVING Research conducted by Krueger suggests that an individual's cognitive performance drops by up to 40% after one or two nights of total sleep deprivation (43)
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42 wOMEN'S ISSUES IN TRANSPORTATION, VOLUME 2 RefeRences 1. Åkerstedt, T
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43POSTPARTUM FATIGUE AND DRIVING 30. Cummins, L., S
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