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PubMed1982

Assessment of Viet Nam veterans for posttraumatic stress disorder in Veterans Administration disability claims.

Since the Veterans Administration (VA) authorized compensation and other benefits for posttraumatic stress disorder, delayed type, in October 1980, the agency has received an increasingly large number of claims--mainly from Viet Nam veterans--for this disorder. An unprecedented challenge of the adequacy of psychiatric disability evaluation in the VA has thus been created. The authors describe efforts in one large program to meet this challenge and review 12 problems in the diagnostic process. Cooperation of all parties in claims transactions, thorough claimant assessment, reliance on DSM-III criteria and methods and consultation with examiners are essential principles for this work.

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PubMed1991

Chronic morbidity of former prisoners of war and other Australian veterans.

OBJECTIVE: This report is the first summary article from a review of studies on long-term morbidity associated with war service or internment, commissioned by the Sir Edward Dunlop Medical Research Foundation. DATA SOURCES: The Medlars database, from 1966 to the present, under the terms military personnel, veterans, veterans' disability claims, combat disorders and prisoners (matched against war); databases of the Department of Veterans' Affairs (Victoria) and the Central Library, Commonwealth Department of Defence, using the term "prisoner of war"; and the microfiche listings of the Department of Veterans' Affairs, under "prisoner of war" and "repatriation". Only studies in English or French were reviewed, reaching a total of 172. STUDY SELECTION: Forty-eight studies are considered in the present summary, presenting the most significant evidence about long-term morbidity attributable to war-time experiences. Studies concerning Australian veterans are emphasised. DATA EXTRACTION: Studies considered valid were summarised for an annotated bibliography, but only reports of major public health significance are reviewed here. DATA SYNTHESIS: The review confirms that strongyloidiasis, peptic ulcer, anxiety states, depression and hepatitis B are more prevalent in former prisoners of war than in relevant comparison groups. We have not identified further diagnoses that should be attributed specifically to war-time exposures. Attribution of long-term neurological and musculoskeletal disorders to war-time exposures remains uncertain. CONCLUSIONS: Former prisoners of war and veterans constitute a population of survivors highly selected by the rigours of war and imprisonment. Occurrence of the five conditions listed above may be reasonably attributed to war-time exposure. We recommend further research on ageing (including neurological, visual, hearing and musculoskeletal disability), family disruption and rehabilitation strategies in these groups.

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PubMed1992

Mortality of former prisoners of war and other Australian veterans.

OBJECTIVE: This second summary article from an epidemiological review of the health of former prisoners of war (POWs) and other Australian veterans, commissioned by the Sir Edward Dunlop Medical Research Foundation, reports on studies of mortality. DATA SOURCES: The MEDLARS database, from 1966 to the present, under the terms military personnel, veterans, veterans' disability claims, combat disorders and prisoners (matched against war); databases of the Department of Veterans' Affairs (Victoria) and the Central Library, Commonwealth Department of Defense, under the term "prisoner of war"; and the microfiche listings of the Department of Veterans' Affairs, under "prisoner of war" and "repatriation". Only studies in English or French were reviewed, reaching a total of 172. STUDY SELECTION: Four studies in this paper constitute the main evidence about postwar mortality in Australians who were POWs of World War II or Vietnam veterans. Other mortality studies are cited in the complete literature review published elsewhere. DATA EXTRACTION: Only the data with an epidemiological basis are considered here. DATA SYNTHESIS: All-cause mortality rates were no greater in former POWs or Vietnam veterans than in the general Australian male population. There was, however, evidence of increased mortality among former POWs compared with other non-POW veterans, and among Vietnam veterans in one particular corps compared with veterans of the same era who served in Australia. CONCLUSIONS: Elevated early postwar mortality of young former POWs implicates diseases with short latent periods (including psychiatric disorders). This is consistent with the greater health risks of this group of survivors that were identified in the earlier review of morbidity. Mortality among former POWs and other veterans requires continued surveillance because a "healthy worker effect" (or exclusion of unfit persons from the armed forces) may partly conceal increased morbidity or mortality that should be attributed to war service.

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PubMed2004

The contribution of social disability to the evaluation of mental disability among PTSD veterans.

BACKGROUND: Israeli veterans who claim for recognition of their mental disability and compensation undergo multi-professional assessments including a detailed psychosocial evaluation. OBJECTIVES: To conduct a systematic evaluation of the social disabilities of veterans with PTSD; to examine the relationships between the various aspects of their social disability and their PTSD symptom severity, on the one hand, and the ratings they receive from psychiatrists determining their overall disability, on the other hand. METHOD: The study was conducted on 120 veterans with PTSD, all filing for compensation. Data was collected by means of semi-structured interviews that were carried out by social workers in ajoint meeting with the veterans and their spouses and that covered marital, parental and social functioning; from the self-report PTSD questionnaire that the veterans filled out; and from the final disability ratings in the veterans' files. RESULTS: Findings showed a disturbing picture of impaired marital, parental and social functioning of veterans with PTSD. In addition, they indicate that both PTSD severity and the psychiatrists' disability ratings were correlated with only a quarter or so of the veterans' specific social disabilities in the areas studied. DISCUSSION: Several explanations for the pattern of correlations between these two assessments are offered. In addition, we highlight the importance of a sensitive and detailed evaluation of social disability as well as recommending the development of practical guidelines for the determination of disability.

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PubMed2005

Post-traumatic stress disorder claims from the viewpoint of veterans service officers.

OBJECTIVE: To situate veterans' experience of the Department of Veterans Affairs claims process in a broader context, this study explored the beliefs of veterans service officers (VSOs) about the Department of Veterans Affairs disability claims process for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). METHODS: A mail survey of the county and national VSOs working in Minnesota was performed. Questionnaires included a modified version of the Disability Application Appraisal Inventory. RESULTS: Most VSOs believe thatveterans value the Department of Veterans Affairs disability status for PTSD to obtain validation for what they experienced in the military and that veterans have negative reactions to the claims process for PTSD. VSOs' satisfaction with the claims process was associated with beliefs about its fairness. CONCLUSIONS: In general, VSOs' beliefs about the reasons veterans value service connection for PTSD parallel those veterans report. More work is needed to determine how VSOs influence veterans, to determine whether PTSD claimants have special or unique needs as they undergo the claims process, and to explore fairness concerns.

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