A survey of the relationship between the mental workload and cognitive failure in taxi drivers, 2017

Autor: Reza Kazemi, Safora Karimpour, Maryam Shahriyari, Seyed Noredin Hossaini
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Journal of Health Sciences and Surveillance System, Vol 5, Iss 4, Pp 188-192 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2345-2218
2345-3893
Popis: Abstract Background: The mental workload and cognitive failures are among the factors affecting the human behavior, performance and efficiency, which are both effective on the human error and accidents of the drivers. This study was conducted to examine the relationship between cognitive failure and mental workload of taxi drivers in Shiraz.Methods: This descriptive-analytical and cross-sectional study was conducted on 200 taxi drivers in Shiraz in 2017. In order to measure the mental workload and cognitive failure, NASA-TLX mental workload questionnaire and CFQ cognitive failure questionnaire were used, respectively. Finally, statistical analysis was performed using SPSS version 21. Pearson correlation, T-test and one-way ANOVA tests were used to analyze the data statistically.Results: The taxi drivers' mental workload was reported relatively high in this study and the results showed that a significant relationship was found between mental and temporal workload and nominal memory error of drivers at 5% error level (p
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