Influence of Age and Gender on Jet-Lag Syndrome: Recommendations

Abstract

Jet-lag syndrome in civilian flight personnel is quite well known. In Air Force crews, especially during long-haul flights, jet-lag is associated with sleep deprivation and a specific environment. In this communication, we present some results of a real world experiment (simulation of troops deployment) after a transmeridian flight in which we evaluated notably the influence of age and gender in this kind of jet-lag. In our population, composed of 27 US Air Force reservists, males and females from 19 to 46 years old, we did not find any important differences due to age and/or gender. Only subjective data, recorded from Sleep Log, presented statistical differences. Nevertheless in the global population the jet-lag induced disturbances in 33% of the studied parameters. Some physiological and/or pharmacological recommendations are done.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADP010468

Entities

People

  • Denise Batejat
  • Didier Lagarde
  • Marc Catrycke
  • Maurice Beaumont
  • Pascal Van Beers

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Caffeine
  • Deprivation
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Dyssomnias
  • Environment
  • Flight
  • Jet Lag
  • Military Operations
  • Sleep Deprivation
  • Social Psychology
  • Symposia
  • Technical Information Centers
  • Transmeridian Flights
  • Wakefulness
  • Workshops

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Circadian Sleep-Wake Regulation and Chronobiology
  • Regression Analysis.