– BSc MSc
Claudia has had extensive training in sleep and environmental physiology,
particularly related to the transportation industry. Her skills
also encompass clinical diagnoses of sleep disorders in adults and
in children.
She obtained her science degree from the University of the Witwatersrand
in South Africa, she completed a Master of Science degree by dissertation,
entitled, Sleepiness: consequences for South African truck drivers
and a new instrument for its assessment.
Claudia’s research interests include how people cope with
the 24-hour day; the consequences of fatigue and sleepiness in truck
drivers, performance and sleepiness, and the effects of sleep deprivation
in children.
The development of a cartoon sleepiness scale has been a unique
breakthrough in the assessment of sleepiness across race and culture
and has facilitated the measurement of sleepiness in a multicultural
population where literacy rates are low.
Claudia also has developed a portable composite tool to measure
environmental variables that impact on comfort and affect performance.
Her recent publications include: A pictorial sleepiness scale based
on cartoon faces (Sleep 27:541-548); Sleep behaviour of South African
adolescents (Sleep 25:417-421); Sleep, work schedules and accident
risk in South African truck drivers (South African Journal of Science
98:319-324); Coping with the 24-hour society – Focus on shift
work and sleepiness. (Occupational Journal of Southern Africa 5:22-27).
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