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Evaluating postdeployment training for coping with intrusive cognition: A comparison of training approaches

Abstract: Objective: Although intrusive cognition (IC) is remarkably common in soldiers postdeployment and successful coping with ICs may predict better long-term psychological …

Telephone Monitoring and Support after Discharge from Residential PTSD Treatment: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Abstract: Objective: This study assessed whether adding a telephone care management protocol to usual aftercare improved the outcomes of veterans in the year after they were …

Biological and symptom changes in posttraumatic stress disorder treatment: a randomized clinical trial

Abstract: Background: Understanding cognitive and biological mechanisms of PTSD treatment can help refine treatments and increase rates of response. Methods: Thirty-six veterans …

Armed Forces Continuous Attitude Survey 2019

Abstract: This statistical release provides results from the Armed Forces Continuous Attitude Survey (AFCAS) 2019, along with results from previous years. Statistics from AFCAS …

Mutual maintenance of PTSD and physical symptoms for Veterans returning from deployment

Abstract: Background: The mutual maintenance model proposes that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and chronic physical symptoms have a bi-directional temporal …

Child abuse interacts with hippocampal and corpus callosum volume on psychophysiological response to startling auditory stimuli in a sample of veterans

Abstract: Child abuse (CA), which is linked to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), has been associated with a reduction in both hippocampal and corpus callosum (CC) volume. …

Perioperative and early rehabilitation outcomes following osseointegration in UK military amputees

Abstract: Introduction: This paper examines the pain management, from surgery to specialist rehabilitation, of the first seven military transfemoral amputee patients treated in …

Why women Veterans do not use VA-provided health and social services: Implications for health care design and delivery

Abstract: Background: The Veterans Administration (VA) is transforming its historically male-dominated health care system to better serve women veterans, few of whom, nevertheless, …

Veterans Affairs patient database (VAPD 2014–2017): Building Nationwide Granular data for Clinical Discovery

Abstract: To study patient physiology throughout a period of acute hospitalization, we sought to create accessible, standardized nationwide data at the level of the individual …

Factsheet ‘Looking back on deployment experiences’ in Dutch Veterans

Abstract: This factsheet outlines the results of a study to explore the meaning that veterans attach to their military deployment experiences. In collaboration with Utrecht …

Gender Differences in Response to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Among Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation New Dawn Veterans

Abstract: Background: Most of our knowledge base regarding treatment response among veterans comes from predominantly male samples. Evidence suggests, however, that women and men …

Longitudinal association of PTSD symptoms and self-reported physical functioning among Veterans

Abstract: Few longitudinal studies have investigated the potentially dynamic relationship between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and physical functioning, and the number of …