Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Pain Comorbidity in Veterans

Abstract

Our objectives are to analyze existing clinical and administrative data in Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 11 to determine: 1) whether the presence of pain affects diagnosis and treatment of PTSD among VA patients who have a positive PTSD screening test; and 2) the effects of PTSD/pain comorbidity on utilization of mental health, primary care, and pain-related health services. The first task outlined in our Statement of Work is to extract data from local VISTA databases into a data warehouse for management, cleaning, and analysis. Unfortunately, this first task was significantly delayed. As of 9/10/2009, we received a one-year no cost extension due to these delays. Since that time, we have experienced additional data management and administrative approval delays; as a result, we did not obtain access to the promised data from all sites until November, 2010. We recently submitted a request for a second no-cost extension to complete data analysis. Now that we have our dataset, we do not anticipate any further delays.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA554830

Entities

People

  • Erin E. Krebs

Organizations

  • Indiana University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Biomedical Research
  • Comorbidity
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Management
  • Databases
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Health
  • Health Services
  • Medical Personnel
  • Mental Health
  • Pain
  • Traumatic Stress Disorder

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

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  • Neurotrauma and Rehabilitation Medicine.