This report examines the relationship between medical fitness and resilience, using key constructs found in the scientific literature that address preventive care, presence and management of injuries and chronic conditions, and health care access.

Medical Fitness and Resilience: A Review of Relevant Constructs, Measures, and Links to Well-Being (Rand Project Air Force Series on Resiliency)

Politics & Social Sciences

Meadows, Sarah O.

Shih, Regina A.

Martin, Margaret T.

Social Sciences

RAND Corporation

The Deployment Life Study was designed to provide a deeper understanding of military family readiness and its sources. This report describes the theoretical model that informed the study design, the content of the baseline assessment, the design and procedures associated with data collection, sampling and recruiting procedures, and the baseline sample of military families.

The Deployment Life Study: Methodological Overview and Baseline Sample Description

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Karney, Benjamin R.

Tanielian, Terri

Chandra, Anita

Mental Health

In 2009, the RAND Corporation launched the Deployment Life Study, a longitudinal study of military families across a deployment cycle. This culminating report reviews the study design and data collection procedures, then presents results from analyses of the data collected from some 2,700 military families, focusing on marital relationships, family environment, psychological and behavioral health, child well-being, and military integration.

The Deployment Life Study: Longitudinal Analysis of Military Families Across the Deployment Cycle

RAND researchers report key findings from the 2015 Health Related Behaviors Survey of active-duty service members. The report details the survey’s methodology and sample demographics, as well as policy implications. The results are intended to supplement data already collected by the Department of Defense and to inform policy initiatives to help improve the readiness, health, and well-being of the force.

2015 Department of Defense Health Related Behaviors Survey (HRBS)

Engineering & Transportation

Cefalu, Matthew

Ramchand, Rajeev

Doyle, Molly

Collins, Rebecca L.

Engel, Charles C.

Beckman, Robin L.

Hawes-Dawson, Jennifer

Kress, Amii M.

Sontag-Padilla, Lisa

Williams, Kayla M.

Engineering

Behavioral health disparities, in which socially disadvantaged groups-such as racial/ethnic minorities, women, and sexual-orientation ' minorities-experience greater risk tor certain mental health and substance use problems, are well documented in the general population. Less is known about whether similar behavioral health disparities exist among military service members. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) desires to understand whether the behavioral health disparities seen in the civilian population also exist in the military, as this knowledge is important to helping DoD target its efforts to address the needs of service members and improve force readiness. To investigate this issue, the authors examined (1) whether minority-group service members are more likely to experience mental health and substance use problems relative to their majority counterparts in the military and (2) whether minority-majority group differences in behavioral health in the military are similar to or different from those in the civilian population. The authors used data from the 2015 Health Related Behaviors Survey, the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the 2015 and 2016 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, and the 2015 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Behavioral health outcomes include mental health (e.g., depression, suicide behaviors, posttraumatic stress disorder) and substance use (e.g., problematic alcohol use, tobacco use) conditions. Book jacket.

Behavioral Health of Minority Active Duty Service Members

Jaycox, Lisa H.

Schell, Terry L.

Wong, Eunice C.

Osilla, Karen Chan

Chan, Wing Yi

Schuler, Megan S.

Roth, Elizabeth

Women's Health

Assessing the Association Between Airmen Participation in Force Support Squadron Programs and Unit Cohesion: An Evaluation of the UNITE Initiative

Crosby, Brandon

Dong, Lu

Werber, Laura

Wrabel, Stephani L.

Holliday, Stephanie Brooks

Doss, Christopher Joseph

Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination in the Active-Component Army: Variation in Most Serious Event Characteristics by Gender and Installation Risk

Calkins, Avery

Cottrell, Linda

Sociology

Using data from the 2016 and 2018 Workplace and Gender Relations Survey of Active Duty Members, RAND researchers produced descriptions of the circumstances surrounding soldiers' self-identified most serious sexual assault experiences. The authors provide information on which sexual assault behaviors occurred, characteristics of perpetrators, and the times and places the experiences occurred.

Sexual Assault Experiences in the Active-Component Army: Variation by Year, Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Installation Risk Level

Parenting & Relationships

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