title: Daily insufficient sleep and active duty status.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We assessed the relationship between active duty status and daily insufficient sleep in a telephone survey.
  
  
  METHODS
  U.S. military service status (recent defined as past 12 months and past defined as >12 months ago) and daily insufficient sleep in the past 30 days were assessed among 566,861 adults aged 18 to 64 years and 271,202 adults aged ≥ 65 years in the 2009 to 2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System surveys.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among ages 18 to 64 years, 1.1% reported recent active duty and 7.1% had past service; among ages ≥ 65 years, 0.6% reported recent and 24.6% had past service. Among ages 18 to 64 years, prevalence of daily insufficient sleep was 13.7% among those reporting recent duty, 12.6% for those with past service, and 11.2% for those with no service. Insufficient sleep did not vary significantly with active duty status among ages ≥ 65 years. After adjustment for sociodemographic characteristics, health behaviors, and frequent mental distress in multivariate logistic regression models, respondents aged 18 to 64 years with recent active duty were 34% more likely and those with past service were 23% more likely to report daily insufficient sleep than those with no service (p < 0.05, both).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Adults with either recent or past active duty have a greater risk for daily insufficient sleep.
authors.affiliation: Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch, Division of Population Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway Northeast, Mailstop K-78, Atlanta, GA 30341.
authors.forename: Daniel P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Chapman
authors.affiliation: Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch, Division of Population Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway Northeast, Mailstop K-78, Atlanta, GA 30341.
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch, Division of Population Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway Northeast, Mailstop K-78, Atlanta, GA 30341.
authors.forename: Lela R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: McKnight-Eily
authors.affiliation: Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch, Division of Population Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway Northeast, Mailstop K-78, Atlanta, GA 30341.
authors.forename: Janet B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Croft
authors.affiliation: Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch, Division of Population Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway Northeast, Mailstop K-78, Atlanta, GA 30341.
authors.forename: James B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Holt
authors.affiliation: Department of Behavioral Biology, Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, 503 Robert Grant Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
authors.forename: Thomas J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Balkin
authors.affiliation: Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch, Division of Population Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway Northeast, Mailstop K-78, Atlanta, GA 30341.
authors.forename: Wayne H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Giles
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D040343:Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000145:classification / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015995:Prevalence; D012892:Sleep Deprivation / Q000453:epidemiology*; D055815:Young Adult