Blog posts with the tag "By the Numbers"

By the Numbers - Apr. 27, 2015

By Shirl Kennedy  on 27.04.2015 3:03 pm
Photo by Senior Airman Kristoffer Kaubisch/U.S. Air Force

37%

The percentage of U.S. military members who "sleep the recommended seven to eight hours per night," according to a new RAND Corporation report -- Sleep Problems and Their Impact on U.S. Servicemembers. Moreover, 31% of the servicemembers in RAND's survey reported getting fewer than 5 hours of sleep a night -- "an amount linked to an increased risk of mental and physical health problems," according to the researchers. Additionally, "nearly half the sample had clinically significant poor sleep quality. (By way of comparison, the study noted that just 8% of the adult civilian population reported getting 5 or fewer hours of sleep per night.)

By the Numbers - Apr. 13, 2015

By Shirl Kennedy  on 13.04.2015 12:27 pm

18.9%

The percentage of 186,460 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with a PTSD diagnosis between 2007 and 2012 who received antipsychotic medication, according to a recent article in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry -- Antipsychotic prescriptions in Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder in Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare, 2007-2012.

By the Numbers - Apr. 6, 2015

By Shirl Kennedy  on 06.04.2015 1:14 pm

11.7%

The percentage of 2,409 California high school students with a parent in the military who "answered yes when asked if they had attempted suicide in the previous year," according to a Los Angeles Times article describing a study published in the March 2015 issue of European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry -- Suicidality among military-connected adolescents in California schools.​

By the Numbers - Mar. 30, 2015

By Shirl Kennedy  on 30.03.2015 11:34 am
Photo by mandiberg on flickr

30,000

The number of Airmen who "may be struggling with unhealthy patterns of Internet use," according to survey results extrapolated from a RAND Corporation survey of 3,479 active-duty, guard, and reserve Airmen in 2012. The survey, discussed in a recent RAND report on problematic Internet use, used the 15-item Generalized Problematic Internet Use Scale 2 (GPIUS2) scale, measuring "indicators on undesirable behavior such as turning to the Internet when feeling down or lonely, thinking obsessively about going online, having difficulty controlling Internet use, and experiencing adverse life events due to Internet use." The full survey results were reported in an earlier RAND report -- Information and Communication Technologies to Promote Social and Psychological Well-Being in the Air Force.

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