Medicine and the Navy

Designing and validating a occupational stress management training for navy personnels

Background and aims: Job issues are one of the most important causes of stress. The aim of this study was to design and validate the occupational stress management training for navy personnels. Methods: The present study was a combination of grounded theory and modeling. In the qualitative stage, the statistical population included all industrial-organizational and occupational specialists, se...

U.S. Navy Dental Corps Survey of 1994: analysis of narrative responses.

Aerospace medicine and Project Mercury Navy participation.

T H E UNITED STATES Navy was a proud participant in the vast preparation and the farflung operational activities which, in bold exhibitions of professional skill, culminated in our first manned space fl.ights. In terms of magnitude, this represented the largest concentrated effort the Navy has ever put forth in a peaceful enterprise. In terms of sacrifice, many important tasks were temporarily ...

The nontechnical causes of diving accidents: can U.S. Navy divers learn from other industries?

Although U.S. Navy diving is remarkably safe, because of the high-risk environment in which military divers work, accidents and mishaps do occur. Failures in leadership and situation awareness (particularly in risk and time assessment) were found to be the two most common causes of fatal and nonfatal U.S. Navy diving accidents and near misses. Responses to an attitude survey showed that junior ...

Predicting personality disorder diagnoses of hospitalized Navy personnel.

The study examined the relationship between type of non-psychotic diagnosis at time of hospitalization, pre-Navy non-psychotic condition, and paygrade for active duty, enlisted Navy personnel. The sample (N = 27,210) consisted of all hospitalized cases of active duty, enlisted Navy personnel from 1981 through 1984 with a nonpsychotic mental disorder as the primary diagnosis. Results indicated t...

Epidemiologic profile of shigellosis among Iranian military personnel: a retrospective study in the Army

  Purpose: To assess the epidemiologic features of shigellosis in Iranian military personnel of   the Army.   Materials and Methods: The data was gathered from archived reports of Iran’s Army at AJA   University of Medical Sciences. All military personnel with confirmed diagnosis of shigellosis   reported by the Army physicians were included in the study. Data analysis was done by appropriate  ...