Fitness for duty: a 3-minute version of the Psychomotor Vigilance Test predicts fatigue-related declines in luggage-screening performance

• Published in: Journal of occupational and environmental medicine Vol. 53; no. 10; p. 1146
• Main Authors: Basner, Mathias, Rubinstein, Joshua
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.10.2011
• Subjects: Adult; Attention; Circadian Rhythm; Decision Making; Fatigue - psychology; Female; Homeostasis; Humans; Male; Predictive Value of Tests; Reaction Time; Sleep Deprivation - psychology; Task Performance and Analysis; Time Factors; Wakefulness; Work - psychology; Young Adult

To evaluate the ability of a 3-minute Psychomotor Vigilance Test (PVT) to predict fatigue-related performance decrements on a simulated luggage-screening task (SLST). Thirty-six healthy nonprofessional subjects (mean age = 30.8 years, 20 women) participated in a 4-day laboratory protocol including a...