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• Proactive Outreach Helps Veterans with PTSD Overcome Barriers to Getting Treatment to Help Quit Smoking
  Investigators identified participants with and without PTSD and evaluated a proactive outreach intervention for increasing treatment utilization and smoking abstinence among these Veterans. Findings showed that compared to usual care, proactive outreach increased combined counseling and nicotine replacement therapy use among Veterans with PTSD (19% vs 1%) and without PTSD (15% vs 2%). For the prim...
  
  Date: July 2, 2020
• Both PTSD Symptoms and Moral Injury are Associated with Adverse Perinatal Outcomes among Women Veterans
  This longitudinal study is the first to examine the impact of PTSD symptoms and moral injury on adverse perinatal outcomes among women who became pregnant in the first three years after separating from military service. Findings showed that after adjusting for age, racial/ethnic minority status, socioeconomic status, and lifetime trauma, both PTSD symptoms and moral injury were associated with adv...
  
  Date: June 1, 2020
• Positive IPV Screen Significantly Associated with Health Outcomes and Healthcare Use among Women Veterans Over 45
  This study examined the proportion of women older than childbearing age who screen positive when routinely screened for past-year intimate partner violence (IPV) at VA clinics, as well as associations of a positive screen with health conditions and use of healthcare services. Findings showed that of the study cohort, 255 middle-aged (45-59 years; 9%) and 79 older (60 years and older, 5%) women scr...
  
  Date: April 21, 2020
• Rates of Mental Health Diagnoses are Higher among Veterans with Obesity
  The objective of this study was to examine rates of mental health diagnoses among a national cohort of women and men VA primary care patients with and without obesity. Findings showed that rates of any mental health diagnosis were higher among women than men and people with versus without obesity. Depression and PTSD diagnosis rates were higher for women and men with versus without obesity. For e...
  
  Date: January 30, 2020
• VA Healthcare Benefits May Reduce Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Seeking Mental Health Treatment among Veterans
  This study assessed whether racial/ethnic disparities in mental health treatment seeking for psychiatric conditions common in the Veteran population (PTSD, major depressive disorder, alcohol-use disorder or AUD) were attenuated for military Veterans compared to civilians, and whether attenuation was more pronounced among Veterans who had VA healthcare coverage in the past 12 months. Findings showe...
  
  Date: January 27, 2020

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• FORUM, May 2012: PTSD, suicide

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  ...mental health care, many focused on PTSD care and on suicide prevention....» Forum » May12 » FORUM, May 2012: PTSD, suicide Health Services Research &...Behavior among Veterans with TBI and PTSD Lisa Brenner, Ph.D., ABPP, Director

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  ...mental health care, many focused on PTSD care and on suicide prevention....» Forum » May12 » FORUM, May 2012: PTSD, suicide Health Services Research &...May 2012 » Back to Table of Contents PTSD Treatment and Suicide Prevention: Clinical

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  ...mental health care, many focused on PTSD care and on suicide prevention....» Forum » May12 » FORUM, May 2012: PTSD, suicide Health Services Research &...Compensation and Pension Examination for PTSD Ted Speroff, Ph.D., VA Tennessee Valley

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• Evidence-Based PTSD Treatment: Prolonged Exposure and Cognitive Processing Therapy 07/20/2020
• Understanding Veterans' Experiences of Trauma-focused PTSD Therapy 06/15/2020
• Treatment of PTSD in Veterans 09/08/2017
• Implementation of Evidence-Based Psychotherapy for PTSD 07/19/2017

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• Learn more about the studies being conducted within HSR&D's PTSD CREATE (Collaborative Research to Enhance and Advance Transformation and Excellence) initiative.
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