Reducing the Length of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support

The authors thank the Millennium Cohort Study and the Millennium Cohort Family Study participants, without whom these analyses would not have been possible. The authors also thank Scott Seggerman from the Defense Manpower Data Center, Monterey, California; the professionals from the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, especially those in the Military Operational Medicine Research Program, Fort Detrick, Maryland; and The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland.

In addition to the authors, the Millennium Cohort Program Team includes Lauren Bauer, Deborah Bookwalter, Satbir Boparai, Carlos Carballo, MAJ Adam Cooper, James Davies, Alex Esquivel, CAPT Dennis Faix, Lt Col Susan Farrish, Toni Geronimo, Isabel Jacobson, Cynthia LeardMann, William Lee, Denise Lovec-Jenkins, Kyna Long, Gordon Lynch, Rayna Matsuno, Hope McMaster, Danielle Mitchell, Chiping Nieh, Anet Petrosyan, Christopher Phillips, Sabrina Richardson, Anna Rivera, Rudy Rull, Beverly Sheppard, Steven Speigle, Valerie Stander, Evelyn Sun, Dan Trone, Jennifer Walstrom, and Kelly Woodall.

The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

: The study protocol was approved by the Naval Health Research Center Institutional Review Board in compliance with all applicable Federal regulations governing the protection of human subjects. Research data were derived from an approved Naval Health Research Center, Institutional Review Board protocol number NHRC.2000.0007.

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