Development and Initial Validation of an Acute Readiness Monitoring Scale in Military Personnel.

ABSTRACT: Personnel in many professions must remain "ready" to perform diverse activities. Managing individual and collective capability is a common concern for leadership and decision makers. Typical existing approaches for monitoring readiness involve keeping detailed records of training, health and equipment maintenance, or - less commonly - data from wearable devices that can be difficult to interpret as well as raising privacy concerns. A widely applicable, simple psychometric measure of perceived readiness would be invaluable in generating rapid evaluations of current capability directly from personnel. To develop this measure, we conducted exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis with a sample of 770 Australian military personnel. The 32-item Acute Readiness Monitoring Sca

SUBMITTER: Keegan RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8636321 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature