作者
Katherine M Iverson, Ann M Hendricks, Rachel Kimerling, Maxine Krengel, Mark Meterko, Kelly L Stolzmann, Errol Baker, Terri K Pogoda, Jennifer J Vasterling, Henry L Lew
发表日期
2011/7/1
期刊
Women's Health Issues
卷号
21
期号
4
页码范围
S210-S217
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Background
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has substantial negative implications for the post-deployment adjustment of veterans who served in Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF); however, most research on veterans has focused on males. This study investigated gender differences in psychiatric diagnoses and neurobehavioral symptom severity among OEF/OIF veterans with deployment-related TBI.
Methods
This population-based study examined psychiatric diagnoses and self-reported neurobehavioral symptom severity from administrative records for 12,605 United States OEF/OIF veterans evaluated as having deployment-related TBI. Men (n = 11,951) and women (n = 654) who were evaluated to have deployment-related TBI during a standardized comprehensive TBI evaluation in Department of Veterans Affairs facilities were compared on the presence of psychiatric diagnoses …
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