Demographic and Psychosocial Predictors of Early Attrition for Drug Use in U.S. Marines.

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine demographic and psychosocial predictors of early attrition for drug use in a cohort of U.S. Marines and the resulting lost person-days.

Smoking cessation and improvement in physical performance among young men.

Tobacco use among young adults is a major public health challenge. Near-term benefits of cessation may motivate active young people to quit or avoid smoking. Military basic training includes mandatory tobacco cessation, as well as uniform physical conditioning regimes, creating an opportunity to evaluate changes in physical performance metrics in direct relation to smoking cessation.

Trends in new U.S. Marine Corps accessions during the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The objective of this study was to analyze trends in preservice characteristics among Marine Corps recruits during the recent operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Recruits completed a confidential survey during their first week of training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, California. Demographics, behaviors, and health information were analyzed for trends from 2001 to 2010 using the Cochran-Armitage trend test and F statistic.

Preinjury psychiatric status, injury severity, and postdeployment posttraumatic stress disorder.

Context: Physical injury has been associated with the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Previous studies have retrospectively examined the relationship of preinjury psychiatric status and postinjury PTSD with conflicting results, but no prospective studies regarding this subject have been conducted, to our knowledge.

Objective: To prospectively assess the relationship of predeployment psychiatric status and injury severity with postdeployment PTSD.

Health care utilization among complementary and alternative medicine users in a large military cohort.

Background: Complementary and Alternative Medicine use and how it impacts health care utilization in the United States Military is not well documented. Using data from the Millennium Cohort Study we describe the characteristics of CAM users in a large military population and document their health care needs over a 12-month period. The aim of this study was to determine if CAM users are requiring more physician-based medical services than users of conventional medicine.

Self-reported health symptoms and conditions among complementary and alternative medicine users in a large military cohort.

Purpose: To describe medical symptom and condition reporting in relation to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use among members of the US military.

Methods: CAM was defined as health treatments not widely taught at US medical schools or typically available at US hospitals. By using data from the Millennium Cohort Study, we included participants who completed a survey from 2004 to 2006 (n=86,131) as part of this cross-sectional analysis in which we sought to identify demographic characteristics and types of health-related symptoms and conditions associated with CAM use.