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Iraq And Afghanistan Veterans Report Symptoms Consistent With Chronic Multisymptom Illness One Year After Deployment, Lisa M. Mcandrew, Drew A. Helmer, L. Alison Phillips, Helena K. Chandler, Kathleen Ray, Karen S. Quigley
Iraq And Afghanistan Veterans Report Symptoms Consistent With Chronic Multisymptom Illness One Year After Deployment, Lisa M. Mcandrew, Drew A. Helmer, L. Alison Phillips, Helena K. Chandler, Kathleen Ray, Karen S. Quigley
Educational & Counseling Psychology Faculty Scholarship
Many Veterans returning from service in Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF) experience chronic pain. What is not known is whether for some OIF/OEF Veterans this pain is part of a larger condition of diffuse multisystem symptoms consistent with chronic multisymptom illness (CMI). We use data from a prospective longitudinal study of OIF/OEF Veterans to determine the frequency of CMI. We found that 1 yr after deployment, 49.5% of OIF/OEF Veterans met criteria for mild to moderate CMI and 10.8% met criteria for severe CMI. Over 90% of Veterans with chronic pain met criteria for CMI. CMI was not completely …
Fibromyalgia Syndrome Care Of Iraq- And Afghanistan-Deployed Veterans In Veterans Health Administration, April F. Mohanty, Drew A. Helmer, Anusha Muthukutty, Lisa M. Mcandrew, Marjorie E. Carter, Joshua Judd, Jennifer H. Garvin, Mathew H. Samore, Adi V. Gundlapalli
Fibromyalgia Syndrome Care Of Iraq- And Afghanistan-Deployed Veterans In Veterans Health Administration, April F. Mohanty, Drew A. Helmer, Anusha Muthukutty, Lisa M. Mcandrew, Marjorie E. Carter, Joshua Judd, Jennifer H. Garvin, Mathew H. Samore, Adi V. Gundlapalli
Educational & Counseling Psychology Faculty Scholarship
Little is known regarding fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) care among Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation New Dawn (OIF/OEF/OND) Veterans. Current recommendations include interdisciplinary, teambased combined care approaches and limited opioid use. In this study of OIF/OEF/OND Veterans who accessed Veterans Health Administration services between 2002 and 2012, we hypothesized that combined care (defined as at least 4 primary care visits/yr with visits to mental health and/or rheumatology) versus/yr only would be associated with lower risk of at least 2 opioid prescriptions 12 mo following an FMS diagnosis. Using generalized linear models with a loglink, the Poisson family, and robust standard errors, …