Recent content by doonaray

UPDATE AS OF 5PM FRIDAY 2ND MARCH: The response to my request for participants has been amazing! Thank you to everyone who has taken part or considered doing so. As a result, as of today I now only need a further 20 more completed surveys before the results are representative of the rail...

Yes understandably resources were stretched to the max, but in a situation like that with no power, no heating etc..... should the council have not maybe called in the military to help with the rescue?

Due to the fantastic response I have already received, this study only now requires 50 more responses before the results are representative of the rail employee population. This means the findings should be significant and of value. If you have a spare 10 minutes I would be so grateful if you...

Hi there, Thank you for your comments. I'm sorry the question is proving such a pain to answer. Your decision on 5 hours though seems a sound response to me. Thanks again for participating.

Hello again, Great post. Thanks for sharing your own personal experience of sleep. As you say fatigue is an enormous concern and a hot topic currently with institutions such as the Chartered Institute of Human Factors and Ergonomics across all safety critical industries. This was one reason...

Hi there, Thank you for your detailed comment regarding the questions in the survey on time to bed and wake up. I have posted a reply to a previous member's post regarding this same issue they found. I totally understand the difficulty in answering it when your shiftwork pattern varies so...

Hi there, Thank you. Absolutely, I will be finishing the written report by the 8th August and submitting it to Derby University. Will be able to share the full results and discussion after that point. Cheers.

Hi there, Yes that was something I was concerned about when devising the survey but I had to use an already tried and tested method for calculating sleep quality which had been used by other researchers previously. Those two questions you talk about are included to obtain a result for number of...

Hi, I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who has completed my fatigue survey so far, or is considering doing so. With the number of responses I have received to date I am very optimistic that by the closing date, I will be able to obtain significant, worthwhile findings from this...

Hi there, Thanks for the comment. A really valid point. For the purposes of my research project I was constrained to use already tried and tested measures for the factors of fatigue, life events, workload and sleep quality. Within the life events section it does incorporate 'change in...

Hi there, Much appreciated, thank you for your time.

Hi again, Apologies for being unclear in previous post....no a missed question would not void the questionnaire, more if a question section was left unanswered i.e. all the fatigue questions, then it would probably cause difficulties with the statistical analysis and comparisons. Thanks ever so...

Hi there, Thank you so much for your comments regarding the project and the difficulties you face. Some research has been carried out already by RSSB and other organisations on shift work patterns in rail, but it is evident that the issue is utterly immense. It was the result of my reading...

Hi, Thank you so much for completing my survey. I really appreciate the comments you have made above. I understand what you mean about the participation code.....but in terms of security (which was the main reason for it), the code and the way the survey has been set up means that no data in...

A request to all rail employees to volunteer to take part in a fatigue survey as part of a University research study. The purpose of the survey is to examine relationships between fatigue levels and workload, sleep quality and life events. The aim of the research is to add to the body of...