Cognitive Load Assessment of Helicopter Pilots in Training (ECCOLicoF)

Direction Centrale du Service de Santé des Armées

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Cognitive Impairment; Skills, Coping; Situational Anxiety

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06832241

2024-A01855-42 (Other Identifier)

2023PBMD04

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to identify the effect of the increase of the situation demands, with or without a thread, on military helicopter pilot's cognitive load, depending on their skills acquisition (at the beginning, midway and end of training course). This study is carried out on a simulator, in virtual reality and allows to identify the moments of cognitive load enhancement and the associated indicators such as subjective, physiological and behavioural indicators. Recommendations will be done to go towards an individualization of the lessons during the pilots education, by anticipating an overload which has a deleterious effect on learning.

Enrollment: 32 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being a trainee at the Instructional center of helicopter crews
• Being more than 18 years old
• Being insured under the French social security system
• Having the bases to pilot helicopters
• Having signed the non-opposition form

Exclusion criteria

• Being minor or an incapacitated adult
• Being in a motor handicap situation
• Having a cardiac pathology
• Having a visual pathology that is uncorrected by glasses or lens
• Having a bad audition
• Having a psychiatric disorder, a neurologic or organic disorder requiring a medical treatment
• Taking psychotropics
• Drinking more than 28 units of alcohol per week
• Being epileptic