About 80 percent of business travelers on international flights say they experience jet lag and most say they implement countermeasures of some sort before, during and after travel, according to a study by Australian researchers.1
The study included a questionnaire administered to 107 international business travelers from Australia to gauge their use of jet lag countermeasures and tests to examine any link between their length of stay and their travel experience with their use of jet lag countermeasures.
Most participants had been traveling for business for less than 15 years, and just over half said they took between one and four trips each year. Their jet-lag countermeasures were primarily non-pharmacological measures such as carefully timed exposure to bright light, diet and exercise, according to the report on their study, published in the October issue of Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance. Pharmacological countermeasures include hypnot…
