The study is part of a doctors thesis at the medical faculty of the University of Cologne, Germany.

Methodology

The study uses an online questionaire to assess the following aspects:

• flight experience and aircraft type flown 
• Burdens and stressors at the workplace
• physical health (overview)
• Mental health screening
• demographic information

Duration

It takes approximately 15 minutes to complete the survey.

Target group

We ask all airline pilots worldwide to participate.

Anonymity

The study director is well aware of the fact, that the evaluation will assess a series of highly delicate information about individual pilots. Due to this fact, the anonymization is guaranteed using the following tools.

Only the study director has access to the raw data of the evaluation - he is subject to medical confidentiality!

All data are stored on servers using the European standards of data protection and latest encryption technologies. The high levels of data protections and security rules of the University of Cologne apply.

In the evaluation, individual group characteristics are compared with the results of the depression screening and the questions on physical health. The group characteristics and sizes are selected in such a way that it is impossible to assign them to individual, smaller groups or persons.

The results of the study are published after evaluation in such a way that only the results of the above-mentioned comparison groups are described.

Under no circumstances will individual outstanding results of smaller groups or even individuals be mentioned!

Data protection

The complete Declaration of Participation including the Data Protection declaration can be found here.

More info

Feel free to contact the study director via "contact".

We really appreciate your interest!