Safety researchers increasingly recognize the impacts of task-induced fatigue on vehicle driving behavior. The current study (N = 180) explored use a multidimensional measure, Driver Fatigue Questionnaire (DFQ), to test automation, secondary media use, and driver personality states performance in simulator. Secondary included trivia game cellphone conversation. Simulated induced large-magnitude...

DEFINITION Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is a "persistent, subjective sense of tiredness related to cancer or cancer treatment that interferes with usual functioning" (National Comprehensive Cancer Network [NCCN] & American Cancer Society [ACS], 2005). Unlike other fatigue, CRF is not relieved by sleep or rest.

BACKGROUND: Fatigue is one of the most common problems experienced by chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients undergoing hemodialysis. The application intradialytic exercises can be best solutions to overcome fatigue related CKD.
 CASE PRESENTATION: A 50-year-old male patient with CKD, who complained severe fatigue, was selected in case study. FACIT Scale questionnaire and clinical indicator...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between the presence of a television set, a gaming computer, and/or an Internet connection in the room of adolescents and television viewing, computer game playing, and Internet use on the one hand, and time to bed, time up, time spent in bed, and overall tiredness in first- and fourth-year secondary-school children on the other hand. METHODS A random...

BACKGROUND Musculoskeletal pain symptoms are common in children and adolescents. These symptoms have a negative impact on children's physical and emotional well-being, but their underlying aetiology and risk factors are still poorly understood. Most of the previous cohort studies were conducted among mid and/or late adolescents and were mainly focused on a specific pain location (e.g. low back ...