Sleep-deprivation effect on human performance: a meta-analysis approach
Abstract
Human fatigue is hard to define since there is no direct measure of fatigue, much like stress. Instead fatigue must be inferred from measures that are affected by fatigue. One such measurable output affected by fatigue is reaction time. In this study the relationship of reaction time to sleep deprivation is studied. These variables were selected because reaction time and hours of sleep deprivation are straightforward characteristics of fatigue to begin the investigation of fatigue effects on performance. Meta-analysis, a widely used procedure in medical and psychological studies, is applied to the variety of fatigue literature collected from various fields in this study. Meta-analysis establishes a procedure for coding and analyzing information from various studies to compute an effect size. In this research the effect size reported is the difference between standardized means, and is found to be -0.6341, implying a strong relationship between sleep deprivation and performance degradation.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 911637
- Report Number(s):
- INL/CON-06-01264
TRN: US200801%%2
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC07-99ID-13727
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: PSAM 8,New Orleans, LA,05/14/2006,05/19/2006
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 99 - GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; HUMAN FACTORS; PERFORMANCE; SLEEP; RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; Fatigue; Human Factors; Human Performance; Sleep-Deprivation
Citation Formats
Griffith, Candice D, Griffith, Candice D, and Mahadevan, Sankaran. Sleep-deprivation effect on human performance: a meta-analysis approach. United States: N. p., 2006.
Web.
Griffith, Candice D, Griffith, Candice D, & Mahadevan, Sankaran. Sleep-deprivation effect on human performance: a meta-analysis approach. United States.
Griffith, Candice D, Griffith, Candice D, and Mahadevan, Sankaran. 2006.
"Sleep-deprivation effect on human performance: a meta-analysis approach". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/911637.
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abstractNote = {Human fatigue is hard to define since there is no direct measure of fatigue, much like stress. Instead fatigue must be inferred from measures that are affected by fatigue. One such measurable output affected by fatigue is reaction time. In this study the relationship of reaction time to sleep deprivation is studied. These variables were selected because reaction time and hours of sleep deprivation are straightforward characteristics of fatigue to begin the investigation of fatigue effects on performance. Meta-analysis, a widely used procedure in medical and psychological studies, is applied to the variety of fatigue literature collected from various fields in this study. Meta-analysis establishes a procedure for coding and analyzing information from various studies to compute an effect size. In this research the effect size reported is the difference between standardized means, and is found to be -0.6341, implying a strong relationship between sleep deprivation and performance degradation.},
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