METHOD FOR DETERMINING FUNCTIONAL STRESS IN INDIVIDUAL EXPOSED TO MENTAL AND NERVOUS-EMOTIONAL LOADS Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC A61B5/16 A61B10/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: work environment criteria and classifications in accordance with P.2.2.2006-05 are used to rate the work environment, which provides a basis to determine parameters of nature of workload, including mental, sensory, emotional, monotonic, and working conditions. The level of each nature of workload, including mental, sensory, emotional, monotonic, and working conditions is determined by formula. That is followed by determining shift duration, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, performance motivation according to WAM scales. The obtained data are used to determine the individual's functional stress, a percentage of the value at the start of shift with mental and nervous-emotional loads by mathematical expression. The derived value of the individual's load in mental and nervous-emotional loads is used to determine the stage of the individual's functional stress: as optimum load, as accessible load, as degree I overload, as degree II overload or degree III overload.

EFFECT: method enables the quantitative staging of a successive transition from load to overload of various degrees of manifestations, as well as reducing a labour intensity of determining the functional stress in the individuals exposed to working process load factors in any working conditions by determining and calculating the work environment and nature of workloads, as well as individual's psychological qualities.

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