The relationships between wanting to nap, actually napping, and depressed and anxious mood.

Study Objectives: These studies disentangle the relationships between wanting to nap (nap desire), actually napping (nap behavior), and depressed and anxious mood. Study 1 partially replicated and extended findings connecting napping and depressed and anxious mood. Study 2 explored the distinction between nap desire and behavior using a new, larger sample and a different technique.

Voces de la frontera/Voices from the Border: Using Case Studies of Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting along the U.S.-Mexico Border to Identify Shared Measures of Success.

Purpose This research analyzes the cases of five women living along the U.S.-Mexico border who overcame challenges during pregnancy or parenting with the support of a federally funded Healthy Start program, designed to eliminate disparities in perinatal health in disadvantaged communities with the poorest birth outcomes.

First Trimester Prenatal Care Initiation Among Hispanic Women Along the U.S.-Mexico Border.

Background First trimester prenatal care (FTPNC) is associated with improved birth outcomes. U.S.

Accommodating adolescent sleep-wake patterns: the effects of shifting the timing of sleep on training effectiveness.

Study Objective: This study evaluated the effect of accommodating adolescent sleep-wake patterns by altering the timing of the major sleep period of US Army recruits.

Design: The quasi-experimental study compared recruits assigned to one of two training companies: one with a customary sleep regimen (20:30 to 04:30) while the other employed a phase-delayed sleep regimen (23:00 to 07:00), the latter aligning better with biologically driven sleep-wake patterns of adolescents.

Setting: The study was conducted during Basic Combat Training (BCT) at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.

Sleep and fatigue issues in continuous operations: a survey of U.S. Army officers.

Forty-nine U.S. Army officers with recent combat experience were surveyed to assess their units' sleep patterns and to determine the tactics, techniques, and procedures used to counter the effects of sleep deprivation in their units.