Publications
The following manuscripts have been published or are currently in press. Listings are in chronological order, unless otherwise noted. All links are to external sites, so please be patient while they load.
Jacobson IG, Smith TC, Bell NS. Author reply: The CAGE questionnaire in alcohol-related problems before and after military combat deployment. Journal of the American Medical Association, 2008; In press.
Highlights the utility of CAGE screening questions for use as controlling factors for those with potential problems using alcohol at baseline.
Jacobson IG, Smith TC, Smith B, Keel PK, Amoroso PJ, Wells TS, Bathalon GP, Boyko EJ, Ryan MAK for the Millennium Cohort Study Team. Disordered Eating and Weight Changes after Deployment: Longitudinal Assessment of a Large US Military Cohort. American Journal of Epidemiology, 2008; In press.
Deployed women who reported combat exposures represent a subgroup at higher risk for developing eating problems and weight loss postdeployment compared with deployed women who did not report combat exposures.
Welch KE, LeardMann CA, Jacobson IG, Speigle SJ, Smith B, Smith TC, Ryan MAK, for the Millennium Cohort Study Team. Semiannual postcards encourage participants to update contact information in a 22-year longitudinal cohort study. Epidemiology, 2008; In press.
The results of this study quantify and confirm that semiannual appreciatory contact is an effective way to maintain communication with a highly mobile participant population while prompting updates of contact information.
Smith TC, Wingard DL, Ryan MAK, Kritz-Silverstein D, Slymen DJ, Sallis JF, for the Millennium Cohort Study Team. PTSD prevalence, associated exposures, and functional health outcomes in a large, population-based military cohort. Public Health Reports, 2008; In press.
Findings suggest a 2% prevalence of current PTSD symptoms in the US Military that are associated with increased reporting of exposures and decrements in functional health.
Smith B, Ryan MAK, Wingard DL, Patterson TL, Slymen DJ, Macera CA, for the Millennium Cohort Study Team. Cigarette smoking and military deployment: a prospective evaluation. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2008;35(6):539-46.
Findings suggest an increase in smoking initiation and recidivism among deployers and highlight the importance of prevention strategies pre, during, and post deployment.
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