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Co-occurring medical, psychiatric, and alcohol-related disorders among veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Stecker, Tracy Fortney, John C. Owen, Richard Mcgovern, Mark P. Williams, Silas
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	BACKGROUND Soldiers often return from war with a variety of combat-related mental health conditions, including posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and substance-use disorders. OBJECTIVE The authors investigated common co-occurring medical and psychiatric conditions and patterns of conditions among returning Iraq/Afghanistan veterans using the Veterans Administration (VA) healthcare systems. METHOD Common clusters of ICD-9 diagnostic-related conditions among returning soldiers (N=293,861) were extracted from the VA data center. RESULTS Diagnoses involving pain are extremely common among returning veterans seeking health care at the VA. In addition to pain-related conditions, psychiatric disorders rank second most prevalent. Psychiatric disorders, and in particular the multimorbid triad of pain, posttraumatic stress disorder, and depression frequently overlap. CONCLUSION As more veterans return from war, there will be greater need for effective services. Given the findings of high rates of comorbidity and multimorbidity, VA services should be reorganized so as to co-locate psychiatric staff in pain centers, simultaneously targeting pain and psychiatric disorders.
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DOI	10.1176/appi.psy.51.6.503
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://mha.ohio.gov/portals/0/assets/learning/culturalcompetence/subgroups/veterans/full%20articles/co-occuring.disorders.veterans.iraq.afghanistan.pdf
PubMed reference number	21051682
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psy.51.6.503
Journal	Medline
Volume Number	51
Issue Number	6
Journal	Psychosomatics
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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