Research Summaries

Back The Effects of Crew Rest on Performance in Marine Corps Aviation (MAWTS 1)

Fiscal Year 2017
Division Research & Sponsored Programs
Department Naval Research Program
Investigator(s) Shattuck, Nita L.
Sponsor NPS Naval Research Program (Navy)
Summary This project seeks to determine how sleep affects performance in Marine aviation, specifically, in a regimented training environment. The proposed study will assess the relationship between sleep and performance of students and instructors attending the Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course at MAWTS-1. As part of the WTI course, various aspects of student and instructor performance will be measured. These include academic and flight performance as well as standardized measures of psychomotor vigilance performance, mood states, subjective estimates of daytime sleepiness and fatigue levels. Objective measurements of sleep quality and quantity will be accomplished by using validated wrist-worn actigraphic devices. For nearly two decades, the NPS Crew Endurance Team (CET) has studied the work and rest patterns of warfighters in operational environments and is cognizant of the necessity for any data collection activities to be as unobtrusive as possible. The CET has been involved with the WTI program over a decade, first collecting sleep and performance on WTI students and instructors in 2005 and 2006. Most recently, the CET conducted a baseline study of WTI students and instructors in the spring of 2016. The data to be collected in the current project will be compared with results from previous studies at WTI in order to identify any underlying trends that may be occurring in the program.
Keywords
Publications Publications, theses (not shown) and data repositories will be added to the portal record when information is available in FAIRS and brought back to the portal
Data Publications, theses (not shown) and data repositories will be added to the portal record when information is available in FAIRS and brought back to the portal