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Stress in Air Force aviators facing the combat environment
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January 1998

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Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

B B Parsa

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This paper evaluates the effect of stress on four squadrons of United States Air Force aviators in tactical high performance aircraft deployed for combat operations compared with U.S. based aircrew using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) as the evaluating instrument. This is a retrospective cross-sectional study consisting of 42 aviators in deployed squadrons stationed overseas and involved in a contingency mission, and 15 subjects stationed in the U.S. and not exposed to combat conditions. Each subject was administered the test instrument, which was completed in privacy and with complete anonymity. The hypotheses of interest were: a) the proportion of individuals in the population of fighter aircrew who would report excessive stress is 0; and b) no significant differences would exist in the proportion of individuals with excessive stress in the various squadrons. Using statistical methodology, these hypotheses were rejected. It is concluded that more studies in each given circumstance are necessary.

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... Prior to the Germanwings incident, the Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA) working group advocated the use of an ultra-brief, four-item psychological screening measure for pilots, where the focus was on mood and suicidal thoughts. 1 Subsequently, the working group revised this recommendation and stated 'more attention' should be given to 'less serious' mental health conditions and stressors (e.g., grief, psychosocial stress, depression, anxiety, panic disorders, personality disorders, and substance use), as well as a comprehensive psychological evaluation, at least at the outset of a pilot's career and recurrently when there is a history of mental illness. 2 Recent reviews have almost exclusively focused on Depressive Disorders and suicidality, either in reaction to the Germanwings incident, e.g., Pasha and Stokes,59 or due to the belief that these "more severe" mental health disorders are more incompatible with flying than "less severe" mental health issues. 20,42,52,78 However, "less severe" psychological issues can still cause impairment and possibly at comparable levels of impairment to major depressive disorders (MDD) and suicidality. ...

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Pilot Mental Health, Methodologies, and Findings: A Systematic Review
Stress in Air Force aviators facing the combat environment
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  • January 1998

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

B B Parsa

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