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The Aircrew Healthcare Project

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Direct Link to the Questionnaire:

• Click here for the Aircrew Healthcare Project questionnaire.

About the Aircrew Healthcare Project:

The Aircrew Healthcare Project is an offshoot of our Aircrew Stress Studies.

Several recurrent themes emerged in the open-ended responses of the stress survey.  One such theme is the complaint that healthcare providers who care for aircrews are not always well-informed about flying jobs or the "flying lifestyle."  This fact can impact on their healthcare in negative ways.

Here are just a few examples:

• A Flight Attendant recovering from an orthopedic injury is re-injured after she is cleared to return to work by a doctor who does not understand how physically strenuous her job can be.
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• A doctor prescribes a medication to treat a Pilot's enlarged prostate.  The instructions are to take the medication about thirty minutes after the same meal each day.  The Pilot flies multi-day/multi-leg trips.  He eats meals at irregular times and misses some meals altogether.  This makes it difficult to follow the medication schedule, so he gives up taking the prescribed drug.
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• A Flight Attendant suffering from severe anxiety following the events of Sept. 11, 2001 seeks counseling.  He gives up after the first few sessions because he feels he has spent most of his time explaining his job and "flying lifestyle" to the counselor instead of working on his problem.

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How To Participate:

If you have had a frustrating or unsatisfactory healthcare or counseling experience and you believe it was because a healthcare provider did not understand things about your flying job or your lifestyle, we invite you to contribute your story to the Aircrew Healthcare Project.

You may fill in the survey questionnaire multiple times if you have more than one story to contribute.

Participation in the Aircrew Healthcare Project survey is open to currently employed, furloughed and former professional Pilots and Flight Attendants.

Crews from all kinds of carriers, and of all nationalities are welcome to participate.

Participation is anonymous.  The questionnaire is in English.

Click here for the Aircrew Healthcare Project survey questionnaire.

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Further Details:

The Aircrew Healthcare Project has 2 components

1. A survey research project to collect as many stories as possible like the ones above.

2. Development of Continuing Education training programs for healthcare providers to familiarize them with the job characteristics and lifestyles of aircrews that can impact on their healthcare.

The training program will be based in part on information gathered by the survey.  The survey is underway now.

The "Fine Print"

For further information about our surveys, please visit About Our Research Projects.  There you will learn about what we do with the information we collect in our surveys.  A note about our research privacy policy also can be found on that page.

To view survey results already posted, please visit the Reports section of our website.

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