摘要: |
A total of twenty-one participants completed the three-month study designed to assess the functionality of improving individual sleep habits with actigraph performance feedback. There were eleven participants in the feedback group and ten participants in the non-feedback group. Each of these individuals completed three surveys. The first survey was administered on June 17th 2002, the second on July 14th 2002, and the third survey on August 28th 2002. Participants wore the non-performance feedback actigraphs for a 30 day baseline period followed by a 30 day period where half of the participants wore a feedback actigraph and half continued to wear the non-performance feedback actigraph. In order to begin the project in Galesburg Illinois, and to recruit the necessary participants, it was necessary to spend a significant period of time at the Galesburg depot. The goal of this project was to recruit thirty engineers who would commit to wearing an Actigraph sleep watch, 24 hours a day, for two consecutive thirty day periods. In addition to wearing the sleep watch, participants were asked to complete a daily sleep log that cataloged their activities for each of the thirty days. This was a simple task, whereby a participant would account for their actions according to a legend (e.g., s = sleep/ w = work/ etc.). Additionally, all engineers and conductors going in to or out of the Galesburg depot were asked to complete a survey designed to identify fatigue related issues. |