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. 2019 Sep 4;9(1):12746.
doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-49223-9.

Chronic, but not acute, fatigue predicts self-reported attentional driving errors in mothers attending infant children

Mar Sánchez-García  1 , Pedro M Valero-Mora  2 , Eva Carvajal  3 , Jaime Sanmartín  1
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Chronic, but not acute, fatigue predicts self-reported attentional driving errors in mothers attending infant children

Mar Sánchez-García et al. Sci Rep. .

Abstract

Mothers attending infant children usually experience high levels of fatigue, and fatigue has been shown to be related to car crashes through attentional errors, among other causes. The current study investigates the effects of fatigue on the attentional errors while driving of women attending infant children. A sample of 112 women-67 attending infant children and 45 not attending-filled out self-report questionnaires assessing acute fatigue, chronic fatigue, and attention-related driving errors. A mediational analysis showed that women attending infant children had higher levels of fatigue, and that chronic fatigue, but not acute fatigue, was related to attentional errors while driving.

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Mediated relationship between the group variable and attentional errors. The labels of the boxes are: WNAI = Women not attending infants; FAS = Chronic fatigue; VASF = Acute fatigue; VASE = Acute energy; ARDE = Attentional errors while driving, CHILDREN = Number of children of the woman, AGE = Age of the woman.
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