Steps toward developing a comprehensive fatigue monitoring and mitigation solution: perspectives from a cohort of United States Naval Surface Force officers.

Study Objectives: This study analyzed fatigue and its management in US Naval Surface Force warships, focusing on understanding current practices and barriers, and examining the influence of organizational and individual factors on managing chronic fatigue. Furthermore, this study explored the impact of organizational and individual factors on fatigue management.

Methods: As part of a larger study, 154 naval officers (mean ± standard deviation; 31.

Advancing a U.S. navy shipboard infrastructure for sleep monitoring with wearable technology.

Development of fatigue management solutions is critical to U.S. Navy populations.

Daytime Sleep-Tracking Performance of Four Commercial Wearable Devices During Unrestricted Home Sleep.

Purpose: Previous studies have found that many commercial wearable devices can accurately track sleep-wake patterns in laboratory or home settings. However, nearly all previous studies tested devices under conditions with fixed time in bed (TIB) and during nighttime sleep episodes only. Despite its relevance to shift workers and others with irregular sleep schedules, it is largely unknown how devices track daytime sleep.

Sleep deficiency, operational fatigue and the interplay of compromising factors: Analysis to aid in fatigue management.

The United States Navy is a high-reliability organization that must maintain optimum performance under challenging conditions. One key challenge for sailors is obtaining sufficient sleep, which can lead to fatigue and other outcomes that compromise operational readiness. Identifying sleep issues and their causes is critical for military leaders to care for their personnel, and to make informed, risk-based operational decisions.

Performance of Four Commercial Wearable Sleep-Tracking Devices Tested Under Unrestricted Conditions at Home in Healthy Young Adults.

Purpose: Commercial wearable sleep-tracking devices are growing in popularity and in recent studies have performed well against gold standard sleep measurement techniques. However, most studies were conducted in controlled laboratory conditions. We therefore aimed to test the performance of devices under naturalistic unrestricted home sleep conditions.

Self-reported sleep and sleep deficiency: Results from a large initiative of sailors attached to U.S. Navy warships.

Chronic insufficient sleep is known to lead to a broad range of negative consequences (e.g. poor health and cognitive performance).

Performance of seven consumer sleep-tracking devices compared with polysomnography.

Study Objectives: Consumer sleep-tracking devices are widely used and becoming more technologically advanced, creating strong interest from researchers and clinicians for their possible use as alternatives to standard actigraphy. We, therefore, tested the performance of many of the latest consumer sleep-tracking devices, alongside actigraphy, versus the gold-standard sleep assessment technique, polysomnography (PSG).

Methods: In total, 34 healthy young adults (22 women; 28.

How word comprehension exposures facilitate later spoken production: implications for lexical processing and repetition priming.

Both comprehension and production exposures to words facilitate spoken production of the same words in picture-naming tasks performed several minutes later. Three experiments examined the mechanisms by which different types of comprehension exposures to words facilitate spoken production. Both overt and silent reading and listening tasks elicited substantial priming in picture naming at 10-minute but not 1-week retention intervals.

The Benefit of Mental Skills Training on Performance and Stress Response in Military Personnel.

Mental skills training (MST) has been suggested to reduce stress in civilian and athletic populations, however, whether these techniques and practices transfer to a military population are unknown. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate two MST programs against a baseline condition, training-as-usual (TAU), during an intense, active-duty, military training environment. Two hundred and three Marines enrolled in the United States Marine Corps' Basic Reconnaissance Course participated in this effort ( = 203; age = 22.

Effects of Insomnia and Depression on CPAP Adherence in a Military Population.

Initial self-reported depression and insomnia prior to the diagnosis and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea with continuous positive airway pressure therapy did not reliably predict short- and long-term adherence in a sample of active-duty military and veteran patients.

The Intersection of Medicine and Urology: An Emerging Paradigm of Sexual Function, Cardiometabolic Risk, Bone Health, and Men's Health Centers.

Men's mental health and how they think about their health are critical to the future of men's health. Poor health choice patterns are established under age 50, when men are twice as likely to die than women. As the future of medicine focuses on quality and value, a better understanding of the social determinants of men's health will identify areas for improvement.

Preparing for Combat Readiness for the Fight: Physical Performance Profile of Female U.S. Marines.

Females have been restricted from serving in direct combat arms' positions for decades. One reason for the exclusion derives from the perceived physical demands of these positions. As a result, many current efforts are directed toward defining the physical demands of combat arms' positions.

Performance differences between male and female marines on standardized physical fitness tests and combat proxy tasks: identifying the gap.

Objectives: For decades women have been restricted from direct assignment to certain military occupational specialties such as infantry. These restrictions can limit the advancement of women through the ranks of military leadership. Thus, the purpose of this effort was to identify those physical requirements most likely to serve as barriers for women wanting to enter closed combat arms positions, and to evaluate the quality of existing physical fitness tests as potential measures of assessment of combat readiness.