50%
The percentage of a cohort of female active duty Service members referred for a sleep study who were diagnosed with obstructive sleep disorder (OSA), according to a recent article in the journal Military Medicine -- An Initial Report of Sleep Disorders in Women in the U.S. Military.
Welcome to this week’s edition of CDP News! We like to use this space to review recent happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, while also looking ahead to upcoming events. March is just about over and we’re all ready for April and warmer weather!
The weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● PTSD Research Quarterly - Shared Decision-making for PTSD
● Patients’ perspectives on political self-disclosure, the therapeutic alliance, and the infiltration of politics into the therapy room in the Trump era.
● American Military Veteran Entrepreneurs: A Comprehensive Profile of Demographic, Service History, and Psychosocial Characteristics.
My great-grandfather once told me that “The best and worst things in life happen at night.” I am sure that I had no idea what he was talking about at the time, but I clearly recall spending nights at my great-grandparents’ home in Jackson, Tennessee as a young boy and watching my great-grandfather pace the house at night and asking him why he always seemed to be awake. My great-grandfather William Alfred Key enlisted in the U.S. Army underage to fight in the final months of World War I and in 1940 was commissioned as an engineering officer in the beginning of World War II. He was later the State Commander of the Tennessee Veterans of Foreign Wars. Papa was my first hero and I am pretty sure he never slept.
63%
The percentage of soldiers who "had at least one pain diagnosis" during FY 2012, according to a recent article in the journal Military Medicine, Prevalence of Pain Diagnoses and Burden of Pain Among Active Duty Soldiers, FY2012. 59% had a "primary pain diagnosis."