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The Mental Health of Older Veterans Ages 58-99 Years: 2016-2017 VE-HEROeS Findings
Mental health and its correlates were examined in U.S. Vietnam War veterans approximately fifty years after the War. The 2016-2017 VE-HEROeS (Vietnam Era Health Retrospective Observational Study) was a mail survey of the health of U.S. Vietnam War veterans who served between February 28, 1961 and Ma...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7740743/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.551 |
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author | Cypel, Yasmin Schnurr, Paula Bossarte, Robert Culpepper, William Schneiderman, Aaron Akhtar, Fatema Morley, Sybil Davey, Victoria |
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description | Mental health and its correlates were examined in U.S. Vietnam War veterans approximately fifty years after the War. The 2016-2017 VE-HEROeS (Vietnam Era Health Retrospective Observational Study) was a mail survey of the health of U.S. Vietnam War veterans who served between February 28, 1961 and May 7, 1975 and matched US non-veteran controls. ‘Veteran status’ represented wartime experience for three cohorts: ‘theater’ veterans with service in Vietnam, Cambodia, or Laos, non-theater veterans with service elsewhere, and non-veterans with no military service. Veterans and non-veterans, aged 58-99 years, were randomly selected from a veteran sampling frame (n=9.87 million) derived from the Department of Veterans Affairs’ USVETS dataset and a commercial address database, respectively. Questionnaires were mailed to 42,393 veterans and 6,885 non-veterans; the response rate for veterans was 45% (n=18,866) and 67% (n=4,530) for non-veterans. Weighted bivariate and multivariable analyses were conducted to examine poor overall mental health, via the SF-8TM Mental Health Component Summary score (MCS), and other mental health measures by veteran status and socioeconomic, health, and other military characteristics. Nearly 50% of all theater veterans reported poor overall mental health (MCS<50). Prevalence of mental health measures was greatest for theater veterans and successively decreased for non-theater veterans and non-veterans. Key correlates significantly (P< 0.02) associated with poor MCS included veteran status, race/ethnicity, income, physical health, health perception, trauma, distress, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (Primary Care DSM-5 PTSD screen), and drug use. Results indicate a high burden of poor mental health among those who served in-theater. |
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spelling | pubmed-77407432020-12-21 The Mental Health of Older Veterans Ages 58-99 Years: 2016-2017 VE-HEROeS Findings Cypel, Yasmin Schnurr, Paula Bossarte, Robert Culpepper, William Schneiderman, Aaron Akhtar, Fatema Morley, Sybil Davey, Victoria Innov Aging Abstracts Mental health and its correlates were examined in U.S. Vietnam War veterans approximately fifty years after the War. The 2016-2017 VE-HEROeS (Vietnam Era Health Retrospective Observational Study) was a mail survey of the health of U.S. Vietnam War veterans who served between February 28, 1961 and May 7, 1975 and matched US non-veteran controls. ‘Veteran status’ represented wartime experience for three cohorts: ‘theater’ veterans with service in Vietnam, Cambodia, or Laos, non-theater veterans with service elsewhere, and non-veterans with no military service. Veterans and non-veterans, aged 58-99 years, were randomly selected from a veteran sampling frame (n=9.87 million) derived from the Department of Veterans Affairs’ USVETS dataset and a commercial address database, respectively. Questionnaires were mailed to 42,393 veterans and 6,885 non-veterans; the response rate for veterans was 45% (n=18,866) and 67% (n=4,530) for non-veterans. Weighted bivariate and multivariable analyses were conducted to examine poor overall mental health, via the SF-8TM Mental Health Component Summary score (MCS), and other mental health measures by veteran status and socioeconomic, health, and other military characteristics. Nearly 50% of all theater veterans reported poor overall mental health (MCS<50). Prevalence of mental health measures was greatest for theater veterans and successively decreased for non-theater veterans and non-veterans. Key correlates significantly (P< 0.02) associated with poor MCS included veteran status, race/ethnicity, income, physical health, health perception, trauma, distress, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (Primary Care DSM-5 PTSD screen), and drug use. Results indicate a high burden of poor mental health among those who served in-theater. Oxford University Press 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7740743/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.551 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstracts Cypel, Yasmin Schnurr, Paula Bossarte, Robert Culpepper, William Schneiderman, Aaron Akhtar, Fatema Morley, Sybil Davey, Victoria The Mental Health of Older Veterans Ages 58-99 Years: 2016-2017 VE-HEROeS Findings |
title | The Mental Health of Older Veterans Ages 58-99 Years: 2016-2017 VE-HEROeS Findings |
title_full | The Mental Health of Older Veterans Ages 58-99 Years: 2016-2017 VE-HEROeS Findings |
title_fullStr | The Mental Health of Older Veterans Ages 58-99 Years: 2016-2017 VE-HEROeS Findings |
title_full_unstemmed | The Mental Health of Older Veterans Ages 58-99 Years: 2016-2017 VE-HEROeS Findings |
title_short | The Mental Health of Older Veterans Ages 58-99 Years: 2016-2017 VE-HEROeS Findings |
title_sort | mental health of older veterans ages 58-99 years: 2016-2017 ve-heroes findings |
topic | Abstracts |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7740743/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.551 |
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