TY - JOUR
T1 - PTSD symptoms, demographic characteristics, and functional status among veterans treated in VA primary care clinics
AU - Magruder, Kathryn M.
AU - Frueh, B. Christopher
AU - Knapp, Rebecca G.
AU - Johnson, Michael R.
AU - Vaughan, James A.
AU - Carson, Toni Coleman
AU - Powell, Donald A.
AU - Hebert, Renée
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by grant VCR-99-010-2 from the Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development program to Dr. Magruder. This work was also supported by the Office of Research and Development, Medical Research Service, Department of Veterans Affairs.
Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2004/8
Y1 - 2004/8
N2 - We hypothesized that PTSD symptomatology would have an inverse relationship with functional status and would vary as a function of sociodemographic variables. Primary care patients (N = 513) at two VA Medical Centers were randomly selected and recruited to participate. After adjustment for other demographic variables, PTSD symptom levels were significantly related to age (younger patients had more severe symptoms), employment status (disabled persons had higher symptom levels), war zone experience, and clinic location. PTSD symptomatology was inversely related to mental and physical functioning, even after control for potential confounding. These findings have implications for screening and service delivery in VA primary care clinics, and support the more general finding in the literature that PTSD is associated with impaired functioning.
AB - We hypothesized that PTSD symptomatology would have an inverse relationship with functional status and would vary as a function of sociodemographic variables. Primary care patients (N = 513) at two VA Medical Centers were randomly selected and recruited to participate. After adjustment for other demographic variables, PTSD symptom levels were significantly related to age (younger patients had more severe symptoms), employment status (disabled persons had higher symptom levels), war zone experience, and clinic location. PTSD symptomatology was inversely related to mental and physical functioning, even after control for potential confounding. These findings have implications for screening and service delivery in VA primary care clinics, and support the more general finding in the literature that PTSD is associated with impaired functioning.
KW - PTSD
KW - functioning status
KW - primary care
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U2 - 10.1023/B:JOTS.0000038477.47249.c8
DO - 10.1023/B:JOTS.0000038477.47249.c8
M3 - Article
C2 - 15462536
AN - SCOPUS:4444256693
VL - 17
SP - 293
EP - 301
JO - Journal of Traumatic Stress
JF - Journal of Traumatic Stress
SN - 0894-9867
IS - 4
ER -