ArticleInternational archives of occupational and environmental health2022
Sleep of recruits throughout basic military training and its relationships with stress, recovery, and fatigue.
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- Soldier performance management: insights from boots on ground research and recommendations for practitioners.BMJ military health · 2025Review
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- Continuous Monitoring of Recruits During Military Basic Training to Mitigate Attrition.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Sleep health and its correlates among male and female military recruits in Jordan: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Reducing scheduled evening training does not improve recruits' sleep duration or quality during British Army basic training.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Sleep duration and perceptions of sleep quality in British Army recruits during basic training - an observational analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- Steps toward developing a comprehensive fatigue monitoring and mitigation solution: perspectives from a cohort of United States Naval Surface Force officers.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2024Article
- Characterising Psycho-Physiological Responses and Relationships during a Military Field Training Exercise.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Factors Predicting Training Delays and Attrition of Recruits during Basic Military Training.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveStudies in basic military training (BMT) examining sleep are largely cross-sectional, and do not investigate relationships between sleep, stress, recovery and fatigue. The aims of this study were to (1a) quantify changes in recruits' sleep quantity and quality over 12 weeks of BMT; (1b) quantify changes in recruits' perceptions of stress, fatigue and recovery over BMT; and (2) explore relationships between sleep, and perceptions of stress, fatigue and recovery.
methods45 recruits (37 male; 8 female, age: 25.2 ± 7.2 years, height: 176.2 ± 10.0 cm, mass: 76.8 ± 15.0 kg) wore ActiGraph GT9X's for 12 weeks of BMT, collecting sleep duration, efficiency and awakenings. Subjective sleep quality, fatigue were measured daily, with stress and recovery measured weekly. Multi-level models assessed relationships between sleep, and stress, recovery, and fatigue.
resultsObjective daily means for sleep duration were 6.3 h (± 1.2 h) and 85.6% (± 5.5%) for sleep efficiency. Main effects were detected for all mean weekly values (p < 0.05). Sleep quality showed the strongest relationships with stress, recovery and fatigue. The best model to explain relationships between, stress, recovery and fatigue, included sleep quality, sleep duration, sleep efficiency and awakenings.
conclusionsThe reported mean sleep duration of 6.3 h per night may negatively impact training outcomes across BMT. Combining both subjective and objective measures of sleep best explained relationships between sleep metrics stress, fatigue and recovery. Perceived sleep quality was most strongly related to change in stress, recovery, or post-sleep fatigue.
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