Sustained Weight Loss, Weight Cycling, and Weight Gain During Adulthood and Pancreatic Cancer Incidence in the Women's Health Initiative.

Pancreatic cancer (PC) is the fourth leading cause of cancer mortality among women in the United States. Obesity is positively associated with PC risk. Current health recommendations focus on weight maintenance for healthy-weight individuals and weight loss for overweight/obese individuals; however, little research has assessed associations between PC risk and changes in weight throughout the life course.

Health-Promoting Leadership During an Infectious Disease Outbreak: A Cross-Sectional Study of US Soldiers Deployed to Liberia.

Infectious disease outbreaks are uniquely stressful for essential employees. One way to support workers is for supervisors to engage in behaviors promoting employees' well-being and attitudes toward preventive medicine practices. We examined whether health-promoting leadership contributes to these outcomes in a population of active-duty soldiers (N = 173) deployed to provide nonmedical support in Liberia during the 2014 Ebola epidemic using data reported in Sipos, Kim, Thomas, and Adler (Mil Med 183[3-4]:e171-e178, 2018).

Brief behavioral treatment for insomnia: Treatment schedule and training feasibility in the military.

Insomnia is a threat to the well-being and combat readiness of military service members. Brief Behavioral Treatment for Insomnia (BBTI) is effective in treating insomnia, but the treatment schedule is difficult to implement in the Military Health System due to shorter appointment windows than what is offered in civilian settings. In the present study, 23 behavioral health providers were trained in a version of BBTI adapted for use within the Military Health System.

US Army Drill Sergeants: Stressors, Behavioral Health, and Mitigating Factors.

Introduction: The role of the drill sergeant is one of the most challenging within the US Army, involving unusually long hours and little time off, for a minimum of 2 years. The current study sought to examine the behavioral health of this population and identify risk factors that might be addressed by policy changes.

Materials And Methods: In total, 856 drill sergeants across all Army basic training sites completed surveys from September to November of 2018.

Sleep deprivation and hazardous unintended sleep in US army drill sergeants.

Objectives: Sleep deprivation is an occupational hazard for members of the armed forces, and has potential consequences not only for the sleep-deprived individuals, but also for the people around them. Perhaps the most consistently sleep-deprived population in the US Army are drill sergeants, who lead intense cycles of initial training for new soldiers. In the first systematic assessment of drill sergeants, the current study examined sleep deprivation and its relationship to falling asleep in two hazardous contexts: while driving, and while co-supervising recruit trainings.