Cognitive fatigue in young, middle‐aged, and older: Breaks as a way to recover

Gilsoul, Jessica; Libertiaux, Vincent; Collette, Fabienne

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“…A study of first‐time hearing aid users found hearing aid fitting led to reduced listening fatigue but had no effect on general mental fatigue (Holman, Drummond, & Naylor, 2021), suggesting that hearing aids alone may not be sufficient to reduce fatigue. In healthy working‐age adults, interventions that incorporate micro‐breaks into demanding tasks (Gilsoul et al, 2021) or the working day (Radwan et al, 2022) have been shown to reduce the impact of cognitive demands on mental fatigue. Micro‐breaks have the potential to reduce mental fatigue for individuals with hearing loss and to facilitate greater capacity for participation in physical activities.…”

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A qualitative study assessing the barriers and facilitators to physical activity in adults with hearing loss

Goodwin,

Hogervorst,

Maidment

2023

British J Health Psychol

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ObjectivesGrowing epidemiological evidence has shown hearing loss is associated with physical inactivity. Currently, there is a dearth in evidence investigating why this occurs. This study aimed to investigate the barriers and facilitators to physical activity in middle‐aged and older adults with hearing loss.DesignIndividual semi‐structured qualitative interviews.MethodsA phenomenological approach was taken. Ten adults (≥40 years) were interviewed via videoconferencing. The interview schedule was underpinned by the capability, opportunity, motivation and behaviour (COM‐B) model. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to generate themes, which were subsequently mapped onto the COM‐B model and behaviour change wheel.ResultsNine hearing loss specific themes were generated, which included the following barriers to physical activity: mental fatigue, interaction with the environment (acoustically challenging environments, difficulties with hearing aids when physically active) and social interactions (perceived stigma). Environmental modifications (digital capabilities of hearing aids), social support (hearing loss‐only groups) and hearing loss self‐efficacy were reported to facilitate physical activity.ConclusionsMiddle‐aged and older adults with hearing loss experience hearing‐specific barriers to physical activity, which has a deleterious impact on their overall health and well‐being. Interventions and public health programmes need to be tailored to account for these additional barriers. Further research is necessary to test potential behaviour change techniques.

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A qualitative study assessing the barriers and facilitators to physical activity in adults with hearing loss

Goodwin,

Hogervorst,

Maidment

2023

British J Health Psychol

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“…All participants gave their informed consent to participate, and the study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Liège and was in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (1964). Participants included here were also used as control group in another study investigating the effects of breaks as a way to recover from fatigue (Gilsoul, Libertiaux & Collette, 2022).…”

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Cognitive Fatigue in Young, Middle-Aged, and Older: A Response Time Distribution Approach

Collette¹,

Gilsoul²

2023

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Cognitive fatigue arises after a long-lasting task, as attested by increases in reaction times (RTs). However, most studies have focused on young people. Therefore, we investigated cognitive fatigue through changes in RT distributions in three age groups - young, middle-aged and older – during a 160-minute Stroop task. Task duration was divided into four blocks and the ex-Gaussian parameters (μ, σ, τ) were extracted from individual RT distributions in each time block for each item type. The results showed a significant Group effect on μ. Young people had smaller μ values than the other two groups, meaning that middle-aged and older people performed the whole task slower than young people. By contrast, τ showed no Group effect but increased with Time-on-Task in middle-aged people. Older people did not show τ increase with Time-on-Task, which echoes studies showing some resistance to task monotony in this population. Globally, our results showed dissociated age and Time-on-Task effect on the ex-Gaussian parameters.

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“…Sustained cognitive fatigue leads to poor performance at work, causes workplace accidents, reduced test scores in students, etc. [3]. CF is one of the main reasons of day to day accidents too.…”

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Assessment of Cognitive Fatigue from Gait Cycle Analysis

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Cognitive Fatigue (CF) is the decline in cognitive abilities due to prolonged exposure to mentally demanding tasks. In this paper, we used gait cycle analysis, a biometric method related to human locomotion to identify cognitive fatigue in individuals. The proposed system in this paper takes two asynchronous videos of the gait of individuals to classify if they are cognitively fatigued or not. We leverage the pose estimation library OpenPose, to extract the body keypoints from the frames in the videos. To capture the spatial and temporal information of the gait cycle, a CNN-based model is used in the system to extract the embedded features which are then used to classify the cognitive fatigue level of individuals. To train and test the model, a gait dataset is built from 21 participants by collecting walking data before and after inducing cognitive fatigue using clinically used games. The proposed model can classify cognitive fatigue from the gait data of an individual with an accuracy of 81%.

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Cognitive fatigue in young, middle‐aged, and older: Breaks as a way to recover

Abstract: Maintaining productivity is of primary importance in organizational settings. Nowadays, the pressure for work efficacy is required until advanced age given the increased longevity in western societies. Worryingly,

Cited by 10 publications

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A qualitative study assessing the barriers and facilitators to physical activity in adults with hearing loss

A qualitative study assessing the barriers and facilitators to physical activity in adults with hearing loss

Cognitive Fatigue in Young, Middle-Aged, and Older: A Response Time Distribution Approach

Assessment of Cognitive Fatigue from Gait Cycle Analysis

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