BACKGROUND The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has developed health information technologies (HIT) and resources to improve veteran access to health care programs and services, and to support a patient-centered approach to health care delivery. To improve VA HIT access and meaningful use by veterans, it is necessary to understand their preferences for interacting with various HIT resources ...

BACKGROUND The International Outcome Inventory for Hearing Aids (IOI-HA) was developed as a global hearing aid outcome measure targeting seven outcome domains. The published norms were based on a private-pay sample who were fitted with analog hearing aids. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the IOI-HA and to establish normative data in a veteran s...

BACKGROUND Little information is available regarding medical residents' perceptions of patients' health-related quality of life. Patients cared for by residents have been shown to receive differing patterns of care at Veterans Affairs facilities than at community or university settings. We therefore examined: 1) how resident physicians value the health of patients; 2) whether values differ if t...

Israeli society has seen a gradual decrease in the proportion of compulsory and reserve soldiers amid growing criticism military from those who have previously served. This is connected to willingness on their part organize collective action for postservice benefits influence other postservice-related issues. We argue that new theoretical concept an “emergent veteran identity” could explain thi...

objective: the purpose of this study was to determine the validity and reliability of the persian version of templer death anxiety scale-extended (das-e) in veterans of iran–iraq warfare. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 211 male veterans of iran–iraq warfare completed the 51 item dase. principal components analysis with varimax rotation was used to assess domain structure of the das-e. ...

OBJECTIVES To understand preventive healthcare use by males with multiple sclerosis (MS). STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional survey with secondary comparative data. METHODS Primary survey data were collected from male veterans with MS (n = 1142) and compared with national surveillance data for a general veteran population (n = 31,500) and a general population (n = 68,357). Analyses compared use b...

BACKGROUND A growing proportion of veterans treated at the Veterans Health Administration (VA) have a history of post-traumatic-stress-disorder (PTSD), and there exists a higher rate of PTSD amongst veterans than the general population. The purpose of this study is to determine the correlation between PTSD and intra-operative analgesia, intra-operative time, and anesthesia type for cataract sur...

Marc I. Rosen, MD Veterans who undergo compensation examinations to determine eligibility for service-connected compensation have strong feelings about the process. A recent story aired by 60 Minutes on the compensation and pension evaluation process was titled, “Delay, Deny and Hope That I Die,” capturing the anguish compensation evaluations can evince [1]. A veteran at a recent hearing sponso...

BACKGROUND Anxiety and depression are major health concerns in general among older adults and especially during hospitalization, as they lead to numerous negative outcomes. There is currently no sufficient body of research examining the role of cultural background in patients' experience of these conditions. Better identifying patients at risk may help reduce inequity and provide patient-center...