The complexity of occupational stress electroencephalogram

Honger Tian, Lili Cao, Jun Wang, Tian Xu, Yongguo Zhan, Ling Liu

Image Processing and Image Communications Key Lab, College of Geo & Bio Information, Nanjing University of Posts & Tele- comm, Nanjing, China;.
Key Laboratory of Environment Medicine and Engineering, Ministry of Education, School of Public Health, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.

DOI: 10.4236/odem.2013.11001                

Abstract

It is an important method for using electroencephalogram (EEG) to detect and diagnose occupational Stress in clinical practice. In this paper, the complexity analysis method based on Jensen-Shannon Divergence was used to calculate the complexity of occupational stress electroencephalogram from students and nurses.The study found that the complexity of nurses’ EEG was higher than that of students’ EEG. The result can be used to assisted clinical diagnosis.

Keywords

Occupational Stress; Electroencephalogram; Students; Nurses; Jensen-Shannon Divergence

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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