Relationship between sleep duration, work duration and work fatigue among online motorbike taxi drivers in Kendari City
1 Public Health Study Program, Faculty of Public Health, Halu Oleo University, Indonesia.
2 Southeast Sulawesi Provincial Transportation Service, Indonesia.
Research Article
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2024, 21(01), 1363–1367
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjarr.2024.21.1.0206
Publication history:
Received on 06 December 2023; revised on 14 January 2024; accepted on 16 January 2024
Abstract:
Background: Online motorcycle taxis are one of the means of transportation most frequently used by the public because they reach their destination faster than using a car. People are also used to using online motorcycle taxi services as daily transportation and as a service to deliver food or goods. Online motorcycle taxis also have risks that can occur both for online motorcycle taxi drivers and their passengers. One of these risks is the risk of an accident occurring while the online motorcycle taxi driver is working. Driver fatigue is a serious problem that causes traffic accidents every year.
Method: This type of research is quantitative with a cross sectional research design. This research consisted of 100 samples using accidental sampling technique. Data analysis was carried out using the chi-square test.
Result: Online motorcycle taxi drivers have poor sleep duration and work duration. and it can be seen from the characteristics of online motorcycle taxi drivers who have less sleep duration or >8 hours/day as much as (95.0%) and the length of work shows that they do not meet the requirements or work >8 hours/day as much as (62.0%). So the results of the analysis of the variables sleep duration and work duration on work fatigue show a significant relationship, with p values = 0.032 and 0.023.
Conclusion: Insufficient sleep duration and inappropriate work duration can influence work fatigue in online motorcycle taxi drivers in Kendari city in 2023.
Keywords:
Online motorcycle taxi; Drivers; Sleep duration; Work duration; Work fatigue
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