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Research Citations – Military Relevant Involving AMES Researchers

The citations below are military and first-responder relevant scientific publications produced by AMES researchers.

2022
1. Russell, P., Judkins, J. L., Blessing, A., Moore, B. A., & Morissette, S. B. (in press). Incidences of anxiety disorders among active duty service members from 1999-2018. Journal of Anxiety Disorders.
2. Moore, B. A. & Baker, M. T. (2022). Introduction to the special issue on aggression and violence in the military. Aggression and Violent Behavior.
3. Mysliwiec, V. & Moore, B. A. (2022). Sleep deprived, injured, not seeking medical care. A commentary on Elliman et al (2022). Military Medicine.
4. Evans, W. R., Meyer, E. C., Moore, B. A., & Peterson, A. L. (2022). Psychological flexibility training to enhance resilience in military personnel. Military Behavioral Health.
5. Hodges, T., Sharma, S., Jade, D., & Moore, B. A. (2022). Conflict resolution workshops for military service members and veterans: The potentials of the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) to address military domestic violence. Aggression and Violent Behavior.
6. Bagasra, A., Moore, B. A., Judkins, J. L., Buchner, C., Young-McCaughan, S., Foral, G., Ojeda, A., Baker, M. T., & Peterson, A. (2022). A brief primer on enhancing Islamic cultural competency for deploying military medical providers. Journal of Military Ethics.
7. Gomes, K. D., Sanchez-Cardona, I., & Moore, B. A. (2022). Team resilience: Practical implications for military service members. Military Behavioral Health.
8. Moore, B. A., Hale, W. J., & Peterson, A. L. (2022). Development and validation of the Recovery-Dysfunction Implicit Association Test in military personnel and civilians with posttraumatic stress disorder. Traumatology. doi:10.1037/trm0000363.
9. Collette, T. L., Judkins, J. L., Gettle, M., Moore, B. A., Lee, M., Beckman, D., Dyal, A., Rouska, A., Tate, J., & Wardian, J. (2022). A retrospective, epidemiological review of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in a Military Population. The Medical Journal.
10. Vera, M., Sánchez-Cardona, I., & Povedano, A. (2022). Beyond frontiers: An examination of ethical leadership and job resources in custom and border protection officers' well-being. The Journal of Psychology.
11. Collette, T. L., von Esenwein, S. A., Sprague-Jones, J., Moore, K. E., & Sterling, E. (2022). Incidence rates of emotional, sexual, and physical abuse in active-duty military service members, 1997–2015. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 101745.
12. Hodges, T. J., Gomes, K. D., Foral, G. C., Collette, T. L., & Moore, B. A. (2022). Unlocking SSM/V Success: Welcoming Student Service Members and Veterans and Supporting SSM/V Experiences. Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 15210251221086851.
13. Moore, B. A., Collette, T. L., & Judkins, J. L. (2022). Identity dissonance in recently separated military veterans. The Routledge research encyclopedia of psychology applied to everyday life. Routledge, 1.
2021
1. Moore, B. A., Straud, C. L., Hale, W. J., Baker, M. B., Gardner, C. L., Judkins, J., L., Shinn, A. M., Savell, S., Cigrang, J. A., Mintz, J., Rouska, A., McMahon, C., Lara-Ruiz, J., Young-McCaughan, S., Peterson, A. L. (2021). Post-9/11 service members: Associations between gender, marital status, and psychiatric aeromedical evacuations from combat zones. Military Psychology. doi: 10.1080/08995605.2021.1962192.
2. Straud, C. L., Moring J. C., Hale, W. J., McMahon, C., Moore, B. A., Baker, M. T., Bryant, R. A., Young-McCaughan, S., Isler, W. C., Lara-Ruiz, J., Lancaster, C. L., Mintz, J., & Peterson, A., for the STRONG STAR Consortium. (2021). Patterns of acute stress disorder in a sample of blast-injured military service members: A latent profile analysis. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. doi: 10.1037/tra0001150.
3. Dyal, A., Dejoy, D., Smith, T., & Moore, B. A. (2021). Occupational stress and subjective sleep quality in firefighters: Examining the mediating role of burnout. Behavior Modification. doi: 10.1177/01454455211040049.
4. Moore, B. A., Judkins, J. L., Dyal, A., Schlenk, M., Meyer, E., Straud, C. L., Mysliwiec, V., Peterson, A. L., & Baker, M. (2021). Behavioral and occupational health risk factors in military firefighters: An understudied population. Behavior Modification.
5. Judkins, J. L., Moore, B. A., Stone, E., Welsh, A., Carbon, G., Rendell, B., & Peterson, A. L. (2021). Preliminary evaluation of an activity-based approach to training resiliency. BMJ Military Health.
6. Judkins, J., Smith, K., Moore, B. A., & Morissette, S. B. (2021). Alcohol use disorder in active duty service members: Incidence rates over a 19-year period. Substance Abuse. 1-7. doi: 10.1080/08897077.2021.1941512.
7. Nabity, P. S., Moore, B. A., Peterson, A. L., & McGeary, D. (2021). Incidence (2008-2015) of post-traumatic headaches (PTHs) in United States military personnel. Brain Injury, 35(4), 436-443.
8. Mysliwiec, V., Pruiksma, K., Brock, M. S., Straud, C., Taylor, D. T., Hansen, S., Foster, S. N., Gerwell, K., Moore, B. A., Carrizales, F. A., Young-McCaughan, S., Vanacek, R., Mintz, J., & Peterson, A. L on behalf of the STRONG STAR Consortium. (2021). The Military Service Sleep Assessment (MSSA): An instrument to assess factors related to the onset of sleep disturbances in U.S. military personnel. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine: JCSM: Official Publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 17(7), 1401–1409.
9. Moore, B. A., Tison, L. M., Palacios, J. G., Peterson, A. L., & Mysliwiec, V. (2021). Incidence of insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea in active duty United States military service members. Sleep, 44(7). doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsab024 a. Reported on by U.S. News and World Reports; Military Times, and the United Press International in April 2021.
10. Rivera-Rivera, N., Pérez-Pedrogo, C., Calaf, M., & Sánchez-Cardona, I. (2021). Translation, cultural adaptation, and psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Combat Exposure Scale (CES-S) with US military Spanish speaking Latino veterans living in the Caribbean: A cross-sectional preliminary data study. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 14(4), 721–727.
11. Horan, K. A. (2021). You, me, and OHP: Applying the Sociocultural Self Model to OHP interventions. Occupational Health Science, 5(1), 25-53.
12. Horan, K. A., Marks, M., Ruiz, J., Bowers, C., & Cunningham, A. (2021). Here for my peer: The future of first responder mental health. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(21), 11097.
2020
1. Hale, W. J., Moore, B. A., Straud C. L., Baker, M. T., & Peterson, A. (2020). Examination of the factor structure and correlates of the Perceived Military Healthcare Stressors Scale. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 34(1).
2. Moore, B. A., Hale, J. W., Judkins, J. L., Lancaster, C. A., Baker, M. T., Isler, W. C., & Peterson, A. L., for the STRONG STAR Consortium. (2020). Air Force medical personnel: Perspectives across deployment. Military Medicine, 185(9-10), e1632–e1639. doi: 10.1093/milmed/usaa115.
3. Straud, C. L., Moore, B. A., Hale, W. J., Baker, M., Gardner, C. L., Shinn, A. M., Cigrang, J. A., Litz, B., T., Mintz, J., Lara-Ruiz, J. M., Young-McCaughan, S. B., & Peterson, A. L.; for the STRONG STAR Consortium. (2020). Demographic and occupational risk factors associated with suicide-related aeromedical evacuation among deployed U.S. military service members. Military Medicine, 185(11-12), e1968–e1976.
4. Judkins, J. L., Moore, B. A., Collette, T. L., Hale, J. W., Peterson, A. L., & Morissette, S. B. (2020). Incidence rates of posttraumatic stress disorder over a 17‐year period in active duty military service members. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 33(6), 994–1006. doi:10.1002/jts.22558.
5. Moore, B. A., Brock, M., Brager, A., Collen, J., LoPresti, M., & Mysliwiec, M. (2020). Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury, Sleep, and Performance in Military Personnel. Sleep Medicine Clinics, 15(1), 87–100.
6. Nicholsonn, J. H., Moore, B. A., Dondanville, K., Wheeler, B., & Devoe, E. R. (2020). Examining rates of postpartum depression in active duty military servicewomen. Journal of Women's Health, 29(12), 1530–1539.
7. Peterson, A. L., Foa, E. B., Resick, P. A., Hoyt, T. V., Straud, C. L., Moore, B. A., Favret, J. V., Hale, W. J., Litz, B. T., Rogers, T. E., Stone, J. M., Villarreal, R., Woodson, C. S., Young-McCaughan, S., & Mintz, J., for the STRONG STAR Consortium. (2020). A nonrandomized trial of prolonged exposure and cognitive processing therapy for combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder in a deployed setting. Behavior Therapy, 51(6), 882–894. doi: 10.1016/j.beth.2020.01.003.
2019
1. Brock, M. S., Powell, T., Creamer, J., Moore, B. A., & Mysliwiec, V. (2019). Trauma associated sleep disorder: Clinical developments 5 years after discovery. Current Psychiatry Reports, 21(9), 80. doi: 10.1007/s11920-019-1066-4.
2. Moore, B. A., Moring, J. C., Hale, W. J., & Peterson A. L. (2019). Incidence rates of tinnitus in active-duty military service members between 2001-2015. American Journal of Audiology, 28(4), 866–876.
3. Moring, J. C., Nason, E., Hale, W. J., Wachen, J. S., Dondanville, K. A., Straud, C. L., Moore, B. A., Mintz, J., Litz, B. T, Yarvis, J. S., Young-McCaughan, S., Peterson, A. L., & Resick, P. A., for the STRONG STAR Consortium. (2019). Conceptualizing comorbid PTSD and depression among treatment-seeking, active duty military service members. Journal of Affective Disorders, 256, 541-549. doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2019.06.039.
4. Moore, B. A., Hale, W. J., Nabity, P. S., Koehn, T. R., McGeary, D. D., & Peterson, A. L. (2019). A retrospective, epidemiological review of hemiplegic migraines in a military population. Military Medicine.
5. Hurlston, A., Foster, S., Creamer, J., Brock, M. S., Matsangas, P., Moore, B. A., & Mysliwiec, V. (2019). The Epworth Sleepiness Scale in service members with sleep disorders. Military Medicine, 184(11-12), e701–e707.
2018
1. Peterson, A. L., Baker. M. T., Moore, B. A., Hale, W. J., Joseph, J. S. Straud, C. L., Lancaster, C. L., McNally, R. J., Isler, W. C. Litz, B. T., & Mintz J. (2018). Deployed military medics: Impact of combat healthcare trauma exposure. Military Medicine, 184, e133–e142.
2. Peterson, A. L., Moore, B. A., Lancaster, C. A., Isler, W. C., Baker. M. T., McNally, R. J., Mintz, J., Joseph, J. S., Moring, J. C., Cedillos, E. M., Christians, I. W., & Litz, B. T. (2018). Attitudes and beliefs of deployed United States military medical personnel about providing healthcare for Iraqi patients. Military Behavioral Health, 7, 142-150. doi:10.1080/21635781.2018.1491908.
3. Peterson, A. L., Hale, W. J., Baker, M. T., Cigrang, J. A., Moore, B. A., Straud, C. L., Dukes, S. F., Young-McCaughan, S., Gardner, C. L., Arant-Daigle, D., Pugh, M. J., Christians, I. W., Mintz, J., & STRONG STAR Consortium. (2018). Psychiatric aeromedical evacuations of deployed active duty U.S. military personnel during Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and New Dawn. Military Medicine, 183, e649-e658.

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