Aviation Studies List

Burnout among pilots: psychosocial factors related to happiness and performance at simulator training

• 40% pilots experienced burnout
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29648499/

 

Healthcare Avoidance in Aircraft Pilots Due to Concern for Aeromedical Certificate Loss: A Survey of 3765 Pilots

• 56.1% of pilots reported a history of healthcare avoidance behavior due fear for losing their medical licence. There were 45.7% who sought informal medical care and 26.8% who misrepresented/withheld information on a written healthcare questionnaire.
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35166258/

 

Self-Reported Health Care Avoidance Behavior in U.S. Military Pilots: Related to Fear for Loss of Flying Status

• 55.5% of pilots who reported a history of seeking informal medical care, 33.7% of pilots who have flown despite a new symptom they felt required medical evaluation, 42.5% of pilots who reported withholding information on aeromedical screening, and 11.4% of pilots who reported a history of undisclosed prescription medication use.
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36242520/

 

Multinational comparison study of aircraft pilot: healthcare avoidance behaviour

• Healthcare avoidance behaviour due to fear of loss of flying status has a relatively high prevalence in both US and Canadian pilot populations.
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37658781/

 

Health Care Avoidance Among Canadian Pilots Due to Fear of Medical Certificate Loss: A National Cross-Sectional Survey Study

• 55.5% of pilots who reported a history of seeking informal medical care, 33.7% of pilots who have flown despite a new symptom they felt required medical evaluation, 42.5% of pilots who reported withholding information on aeromedical screening, and 11.4% of pilots who reported a history of undisclosed prescription medication use.
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36914380/

 

Airplane pilot mental health and suicidal thoughts

• Study found that 233 (12.6%) airline pilots meeting depression threshold and 75 (4.1%) pilots reporting having suicidal thoughts.
• https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-016-0200-6

 

The mechanisms linking perceived stress to pilots' safety attitudes: a chain mediation effect of job burnout and cognitive flexibility

• The results demonstrate a significantly negative correlation between pilots' perceived stress and safety attitude, with cognitive flexibility and job burnout fully mediating this relationship, and cognitive flexibility affecting job burnout.
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38894982/