Association of the Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI-2010) with depression, stress and anxiety among Iranian military personnel

Abstract

An inverse association between adherence to the AHEI-2010 and odds of depression and anxiety was found. Further studies are required to clarify this relationship.

International consensus on military research priorities and gaps — Survey results from the 4th International Congress on Soldiers’ Physical Performance

“…Two emerging research priority areas that were identified in the 4th ICSPP survey were sleep and nutrition. Sleep 19,20 and nutrition 21,22 have also been identified as priority areas in other publications, which shows an increased focus on lifestyle factors as a means to optimizing health and performance in military populations. Retired U.S. Army Surgeon General, LTG Patricia Horoho initiated a major public health campaign in 2012 named the Performance Triad, that championed the importance of activity, nutrition, and sleep as major contributors to Soldiers' overall health, performance, and resiliency.…”

Dietary Assessment Methods in Military and Veteran Populations: A Scoping Review

“…The remaining studies were carried out in Europe including Belgium (n = 6, 7%) [22,[70][71][72][73], Finland (n = 3, 3%) [21,34], the United Kingdom (n = 3, 3%) [28,45,48], Norway (n = 3, 3%) [62,94,96], Italy (n = 1, 1%) [31], Greece [23], and France (n = 1, 1%) [50]. Asia included studies in Israel (n = 4, 4%) [2,47,56,81], Iran (n = 2, 2%) [76,90] Malaysia (n = 1, 1%) [57], and Japan (n = 1, 1%) [61]. Two studies were undertaken in Australia (2%) [44,96].…”

“…One study did not report on participant numbers [45]. Forty-five of the 89 studies included male personnel (51%) [ The military population most frequently studied, in descending order, was the army with n = 48 (54%) [2,6,7,[21][22][23][24][29][30][31][32]34,35,[37][38][39][40][43][44][45][46][47][48][50][51][52][53][56][57][58][59][60][61][62]66,[70][71][72][73]76,77,82,84,88,89], followed by veterans n = 18 (20%) [20,[90][91]…”

“…The population types that included intervention studies were army (n = 9) [7,21,32,38,51,53,56,84,89], air force (n = 3) [36,49,54], veterans (n = 1) [103], National Guard (n = 1) [86], and Navy Marines (n = 1) [39]. The most commonly studied type of military personnel in included studies were soldiers (n = 28, 31%) [6,7,22,24,29,32,35,37,38,45,46,48,50,51,53,56,57,59,62,[70][71][72][73][74]76,88] followed by veterans (n = 14, 16%) [20,[94][95][96][97][98][99][100]…”

“…The most frequent methodology used in included studies was FFQs (n = 40, 45%) [2,6,20,21,37,38,41,43,44,47,51,53,56,[62][63][64][65][70][71][72][73][74][75][76]78,90,93,[96][97][98][99][100][101][102][103][104][105][106] ranging in length from eight to 150 items and administered from once per study up to multiple over a 17-year period. The personnel types to commonly use the FFQ for dietary intake collection were army (n = 23/40, 58%) [2,6,21,37,38,43,44,47,51,53,56,…”