All people have experience about anxiety in their lives and it is natural when facing with reactional threatening situations. But chronic and intense feeling is unusual in absence of clear cause. Anxiety includes uncertainty, helplessness and physiological arousal feelings. Generally anxiety is a diffuse, very unpleasant and often vague concern feeling. Clinical studies of war veterans over the...

BACKGROUND More than half of veterans who use Veterans Health Administration (VA) care are also eligible for Medicare via disability or age, but no prior studies have examined variation in use of outpatient services by Medicare-eligible veterans across health system, type of care or time. OBJECTIVES To examine differences in use of VA and Medicare outpatient services by disability-eligible or...

Because Vietnam veterans comprise the majority of all living veterans and most are now older adults, the urgency and potential value of studying the long-term health effects of service in the Vietnam War, including effects on mortality, is increasing. The present study is the first prospective mortality assessment of a representative sample of Vietnam veterans. We used one of the longest follow...

Approximately one million gay and lesbian Americans are veterans, and rates of engagement in the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system may be increasing for both sexual and gender minority veterans. Very little research has examined the experience of these veterans when receiving care at VA health care facilities. The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences, beliefs, and prefere...

ABSTRACT Introduction Although the benefits of employment for veterans with mental health conditions are well-known, effect veterans’ on a system has not been evaluated. The purpose this study was to evaluate (versus unemployment) subsequent care utilization in Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Materials and Methods This used sample 29,022 substance use disorders who were discharged from VH...

Observing that the COVID-19 pandemic has raised considerable concerns about increased risk for suicidal behavior among U.S. military veterans, who already had elevated rates of suicide prior to pandemic, researchers found a small proportion veterans developed new-onset ideation during pandemic.

This is a case study detailing the 2022 IELA Bronze award winner for Mobile Learning Experience, Samaritans Veterans App. project was designed to support military service leavers and veterans in developing wellbeing management techniques skills order facilitate successful transition back into civilian life.

The Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 addressed the need for access to timely, high-quality health care for veterans. Section 201 of the legislation called for an independent assessment of various aspects of veterans' health care. The RAND Corporation was tasked with an assessment of the current and projected demographics and health care needs of patients served by the Dep...

This article analyzes the war memories and processes of meaning-making Dutch veterans who returned to places related their deployment in former Yugoslavia 1990s. It argues that incentive return can be found difficulties have assigning positive meaning because existing collective cultural about genocide Srebrenica do not align with many veterans’ experiences during after war. In analysis intervi...

There is considerable concern about the emergence of significant substance abuse among younger veterans of war in the Middle East, especially among those with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), but little information exists on the magnitude of this problem. Using national administrative data from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) (n = 1,001,996), we examined rates of diagnosed substanc...