Navy Updates Ship Life Survey to Fight Suicides at Sea
Published Date: 3/26/2026
Notice
Summary
The Navy wants your thoughts on updating a survey that studies life on ships, especially to help prevent suicides. If you’re involved or interested, you can comment until May 26, 2026. This update aims to make the survey clearer and easier to fill out, with no extra cost or time burden expected.
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Navy expands suicide-prevention survey
The Navy is updating the Challenges of Operational Environments Study to study shipboard stressors linked to suicidality and to give targeted recommendations to Navy leaders. The study is funded as a longitudinal effort and will continue over a 3-year period with up to 18 data collections (3 ships × 2 collections per ship per year).
Time burden for survey and focus groups
If you are asked to participate, a single survey response takes about 30 minutes and a focus-group session takes about 90 minutes. Over the 3-year projection the notice estimates 20,700 total respondents, 20,700 total responses, and 13,050 total burden hours (18,000 survey respondents; 1,800 challenge focus-group respondents; 900 implementation focus-group respondents).
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