Antihistamine effects on motor skills and vigilance.

Details

• Personal Author:
  Harrison LB ; Tichauer ER
• Description:
  Controlled studies were performed to measure the degree and the manner in which performance abilities of 12 females were affected by a nonprescription antihistamine compound, in two simulated industrial work tasks, one requiring vigilance and the other requiring sensory motor function. In the vigilance task, for subjects treated with the antihistamine, the differences in response time to three key lights were not statistically significant, although the investigation validated the hypothesis that missed responses would be statistically significant. Neither false responses nor purposeful eye movements achieved statistical significance. Dependent variables of the motor skills tasks also failed to achieve statistical significance. The results indicate that, for occupational safety and health, active bodily motion should be incorporated into inspection and monitoring tasks, even though such motion could be automated or machined out. Time period was statistically significant for all dependent variables of the vigilance task on the antihistamine day, while in the motor skills task time period was insignificant for all dependent variables. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  in NTRL, no pdf
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety Sense Organs
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Grant; Drugs; Statistical-analysis; Alertness; Motor-functions; Task-performance; Human-factors-engineering; Light-stimulation; Motor-visual-performance; Sensory-perceptual-processes; Sensory-mechanisms
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-119
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00036559
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB90115072
• Citation:
  Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, Division of Biomechanics, New York University 1975 Jan; :1-119
• Contact Point Address:
  Center for Safety New York University 400 East 34 Street New York, N Y 10016
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1975
• Performing Organization:
  New York University
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19730601
• Source Full Name:
  Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, Division of Biomechanics, New York University
• End Date:
  19740930
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/245974/cdc_245974_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]