Documented combat exposure of US veterans seeking treatment for combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder.

Background There are concerns regarding the validityof combatexposure reports of veterans seeking treatment for combat-relatedpost-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) within USVeterans

Declaration of interest None. Fundingdetailed in Acknowledgements. There is extensive documentation of the prevalence, severity and correlates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Vietnam veterans exposed to the trauma of combat and war-zone service (Kulka et al, 1990). Research with Vietnam combat veterans has been used to create and refine the DSM criteria for PTSD (Shephard, 2001), to ...

SIMON WESSELY post - traumatic stress disorder exposure of US veterans seeking treatment for combat - related

Design and psychometric properties of the quality of life questionnaire for veterans with combat related post-traumatic stress disorder

Background and Aim: Combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder (combat-related PTSD) is a chronic and debilitating severe mental condition in people with experience of war events, which has a deeply negative impact on their quality of life. This study aimed to design and assess the psychometric properties of quality of life questionnaire (QOL-Q) for Iran-Iraq war veterans with combat-related...

The influence of combat and interpersonal trauma on PTSD, depression, and alcohol misuse in U.S. Gulf War and OEF/OIF women veterans.

The present study evaluated the impact of combat and interpersonal trauma exposure in a sample of 115 U.S. women veterans from Gulf War I and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars on 3 postdeployment trauma-related mental health outcomes: posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms (PSS), depressive symptom severity (DSS), and alcohol misuse. Patients presenting for healthcare services at a Veterans Affairs...

P1: A Review of Neuropsychological Function in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with Substantial Substance Use Comorbidity

Neuropsychological approach tries to link behavior with brain functions. One of the structural changes and functional disorders that is, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This impaired memory function, learning, emotional processing and cognitive and structural changes in the brain. Various aspects of neuropsychological function have been reported to be abnormal in (PTSD); however, the maj...