Lifetime Trauma Exposure in Veterans With Military-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Clancy, Carolina P.; Graybeal, Anna; Tompson, Whitney P.; Badgett, Kourtni S.; Feldman, Michelle E.; Calhoun, Patrick S.; Erkanli, Alaattin; Hertzberg, Michael A.; Beckham, Jean C.

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“…Moderate levels of combat exposure predict the presence of a mental health diagnosis (Booth-Kewley et al, 2013), and the occurrence of new onset mental health diagnoses increases among soldiers upon return from a warzone deployment (Hoge et al, 2004;Booth-Kewley et al, 2013). Beyond warzone exposures, civilian trauma history, particularly childhood trauma, can also increase risk for PTSD and other mental health conditions in veterans (Bremner et al, 1993;Clancy et al, 2006;Cabrera et al, 2007). Thus, while the majority of research on veterans' psychiatric health has focused on PTSD, depression, and AUDs, it is likely that the combination of elevated rates of childhood trauma along with increased trauma exposure from warzone deployments places returning veterans at risk for a much wider range of psychiatric conditions.…”

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An examination of the broader effects of warzone experiences on returning Iraq/Afghanistan veterans׳ psychiatric health

Kimbrel¹,

DeBeer²,

Meyer³

et al. 2015

Psychiatry Research

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The objective of the present research was to test the hypotheses that: (1) Iraq/Afghanistan war veterans experience a wide range of psychiatric symptomatology (e.g., obsessive-compulsive symptoms, hypochondriasis, somatization); and (2) General psychiatric symptomatology among Iraq/Afghanistan war veterans is associated with their warzone experiences. To achieve this objective, Iraq/Afghanistan war veterans (N = 155) completed a screening questionnaire that assessed a wide range of psychiatric symptoms along with a measure of warzone experiences. As expected, returning veterans reported significant elevations across a wide range of clinical scales. Approximately three-fourths screened positive on at least one clinical subscale, and a third screened positive on five or more. In addition, nearly all of these conditions were associated with veterans' warzone experiences (average r = 0.36); however, this association was much stronger among veterans with PTSD (average r = 0.33) than among veterans without PTSD (average r = 0.15). We also observed that approximately 18% of the variance in total psychiatric symptomatology was attributable to warzone experiences above and beyond the effects of childhood trauma and demographic factors. Taken together, these findings suggest that returning veterans experience a broad array of psychiatric symptoms that are strongly associated with their warzone experiences.

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An examination of the broader effects of warzone experiences on returning Iraq/Afghanistan veterans׳ psychiatric health

Kimbrel¹,

DeBeer²,

Meyer³

et al. 2015

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“…There are consistent findings about the lower quality of life among traumatized people (d'Ardenne et al, 2005.;Priebe et al, 2004.;Schnurr et al, 2006;Zatzick et al, 1997;Magruder et al, 2004.;Clancy et al, 2006). If we understand the concept of quality of life as a complex subjective experience of people which depends on objective circumstances of life, personality of the individual, ways of interpretation of events, value system, and expectations (Ajduković et al, 2007), then the question is what psychological variables moderate a perception of such low quality of life in traumatized people?…”

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“…In a retrospective study, Clancy et al (2006) found that age, greater combat exposure, and premilitary and postmilitary traumas are associated with increased PTSD symptomatology. Stein et al (2005), found that lifetime trauma, combat exposure, and avoidant coping were strongly related to PTSD symptoms.…”

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War Veterans' Quality of Life: The Impact of Lifetime Traumatic Experiences, Psychological and Physical Health-Related Characteristics

Antičević¹,

Kardum²,

Britvić³

2011

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the cross-sectional differences in self-reported psychological symptoms, life-time exposure to traumatic events, coping styles, personality traits and overall quality of life between the PTSD and non-PTSD Croatian War veterans. A total of 113 subjects within the three groups participated in the study (veterans with PTSD, non-PTSD veterans and controls). Veterans with PTSD assessed both combat experiences and exposure to other life-time traumatic events as extremely stressful, much more so than veterans without PTSD or control subjects. Scores among the non-PTSD veterans were similar to the control subjects, except on the M-PTSD scale, scale of psychosomatic symptoms and coping by avoidance. Intensity of PTSD, extraversion and active coping were individually significant in explaining the total QoL (p<0.01). This study showed that veterans with PTSD became extremely vulnerable to lifetime stress events.

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“…Other risk factors include exposure to prior trauma and sexual abuse ( Clancy et al, 2006;Cabrera, Hoge, Bliese, Castro, & Messer, 2007), exposure to a mentally E.A. Selby et al / Clinical Psychology Review 30 (2010) 298-307 301 ill person in the home, exposure to alcoholism in the home, psychological abuse, and violence directed against one's mother ( Cabrera et al, 2007).…”

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“…Various studies have shown that exposure to combat is a risk factor for elevated symptoms of depression ( Lapierre, Schwegler, & LaBauve, 2007), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; Bullman & Kang, 1994;Clancy et al, 2006;Elbogen, Beckham, Butterfield, Swartz, & Swanson, 2008; Koenen, Stellman, Stellman, & Sommer, 2003), and abuse of alcohol and other substances ( Hooper et al, 2008; Jacobson et al, 2008;Prigerson, Maciejewski, & Rosenheck, 2002). Many of these psychological symptoms have been found to last throughout the lifetime of the individual ( Ikin et al, 2007).…”

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Optimizing Screening and Risk Assessment for Suicide Risk in the U.S. Military

Joiner¹,

Lim²,

Bender³

2015

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Lifetime Trauma Exposure in Veterans With Military-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Cited by 153 publications

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An examination of the broader effects of warzone experiences on returning Iraq/Afghanistan veterans׳ psychiatric health

An examination of the broader effects of warzone experiences on returning Iraq/Afghanistan veterans׳ psychiatric health

War Veterans' Quality of Life: The Impact of Lifetime Traumatic Experiences, Psychological and Physical Health-Related Characteristics

Optimizing Screening and Risk Assessment for Suicide Risk in the U.S. Military

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