Daily Insufficient Sleep and Active Duty Status

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• Alternative Title:
  Mil Med
• Personal Author:
  Chapman, Daniel P. ; Liu, Yong ; McKnight-Eily, Lela R. ; Croft, Janet B. ; Holt, James B. ; Balkin, Thomas J. ; Giles, Wayne H.
• Description:
  Objective:
  
  We assessed the relationship between active duty status and daily insufficient sleep in a telephone survey.
  
  Methods:
  
  U.S. military service status (recent defined as past 12 months and past defined as >12 months ago) and daily insufficient sleep in the past 30 days were assessed among 566,861 adults aged 18 to 64 years and 271,202 adults aged ≥65 years in the 2009 to 2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System surveys.
  
  Results:
  
  Among ages 18 to 64 years, 1.1% reported recent active duty and 7.1% had past service; among ages ≥65 years, 0.6% reported recent and 24.6% had past service. Among ages 18 to 64 years, prevalence of daily insufficient sleep was 13.7% among those reporting recent duty, 12.6% for those with past service, and 11.2% for those with no service. Insufficient sleep did not vary significantly with active duty status among ages ≥65 years. After adjustment for sociodemographic characteristics, health behaviors, and frequent mental distress in multivariate logistic regression models, respondents aged 18 to 64 years with recent active duty were 34% more likely and those with past service were 23% more likely to report daily insufficient sleep than those with no service (p < 0.05, both).
  
  Conclusions:
  
  Adults with either recent or past active duty have a greater risk for daily insufficient sleep.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Aged Article Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Female Humans Male Middle Aged Military Personnel Prevalence Sleep Deprivation Young Adult

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• Source:
  Mil Med. 180(1):68-76
• Pubmed ID:
  25562860
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8996264
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  180
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:02eba90e7948847510166156737283e84d53b04b027184bc95c7dfd243acb6b4
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/116199/cdc_116199_DS1.pdf
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