WithdrawnNot Applicable

Lifestyle Medicine Strategies for Combating Sleepiness and Fatigue in Professional Drivers

Stopped: Recruitment difficulties

Greece0Started 2021-09-01

Plain-language summary

Sleep has a number of health benefits, including memory and learning, vitality and energy as well as high quality of life levels. Lack of sleep impairs judgment, impacts longevity and safety, and increases the risk of a number of diseases including obesity, hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, mood disorders, and impaired immune function. In addition lack of sleep or disturbance of normal sleep cycle could have a major impact on people's lives and working performance such as driving. Daily sleepiness is a problem concerning professions with a non-fixed schedule. Specifically, professional long-haul drivers confront sleepiness problems and in combination with fatigue, they are prone to driving accidents and other incidents. Sleep quality and quantity are closed related to fatigue which is one of the most common reasons for driving and working accidents. In recent years, car accidents involving professional drives have increased significantly. The main reasons for those accidents were fatigue and sleepiness due to long hours of driving or difficult working conditions according to the recent European report (Driver Fatigue in European Road Transport - etf-europe.org). Lifestyle Medicine addresses health risk factors in primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of developing disease rather than on acute care and reacting to illness, injury, and disease. Lifestyle Medicine strategies targeting modifiable risk factors, such as diet, sleep, stress, and physical activity. By applying those regimes the investigators could improve physical and mental health levels that can affect the quality of sleep, reducing daily sleepiness and fatigue, in professional drivers operating coaches and trucks. Any intervention that could improve alertness and reduce fatigue and sleepiness in those people, will automatically improve safety, reduce driving accidents and save lives and resources.

Who can participate

Age range25 Years – 60 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * both sexes, * age between 25 and 60 yrs old * valid 5th category driving license for large trucks and coaches * minimum of 3 years of continuous and verifiable documented work experience as a professional driver in the past 5 years * diagnosed with moderate daily sleepiness as this is documented by a value \>9 in Epworth Sleepiness Scale (SSC) Exclusion Criteria: * drivers with a driving license that expires within a year of the recruitment date, * disabilities that prevent them from walking independently or exercising, * verified mental illnesses, * alcoholism or drug abuses, * or conditions that could affect the outcome of the study

What they're measuring

Changes in Daily Sleepiness

Timeframe: Assessed at 0-month (pre) and at 6-month (post)

Changes in Levels fo Fatigue

Timeframe: Assessed at 0-month (pre) and at 6-month (post)

Changes in Quality of Sleep

Timeframe: Assessed at 0-month (pre) and at 6-month (post)

Trial details

NCT IDNCT05096130

SponsorUniversity of Thessaly

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2023-01-01

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Plain-language summary

Who can participate

Age range25 Years – 60 Years

SexALL

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AI-rewrites the medical criteria so a patient or caregiver can understand them. Always confirm with the trial site.