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Table 1 Veterans’ sociodemographic, military, and clinical characteristics at study onset

From: “You can’t un-ring the bell”: a mixed methods approach to understanding veteran and family perspectives of recovery from military-related posttraumatic stress disorder

Variable

Veteran (N = 9)

Partner (N = 7)

Sociodemographic & Military

Mean (SD)

Mean (SD)

Age (years)

51.7 (5.3)

47.4 (7.1)

Military service (years)

22.9 (7.9)

 Number of deployments

4.9 (2.2)

 

N (%)

 

Highest level of education

 Completed high school

6 (66.7)

1 (14.3)

 Some college

0 (0.0)

1 (14.3)

 Completed college

1 (11.1)

5 (71.4)

 Completed university

2 (22.2)

0 (0.0)

Income

 Missing

1 (11.1)

0 (0.0)

 <$60,000

1 (11.1)

1 (14.3)

 $60,000 to $99,999

0 (0.0)

2 (28.6)

 $100,000 to $119,999

4 (44.4)

2 (28.6)

 >$120,000

3 (33.3)

2 (28.6)

Lives with at least one child < 18 years of age

5 (55.6)

6 (85.7)

Clinical

Mean (SD)

 

 Time in treatment (years)

5.4 (2.2)

 PCL-5 total

29.0 (14.1)

 PHQ-9 total

7.6 (2.8)

 

N (%)

 

 Meets screening criteria for PTSD (PCL-5 score of 33 or higher)

4 (44.4)

 Meets PCL-5 provisional diagnostic criteria (1 cluster B, 1 cluster C, 2 cluster D, and 1 cluster E symptoms as “moderately” or higher)

4 (44.4)

 Meets screening criteria for moderate or higher depressive symptom severity (PHQ-9 score of 10 or higher)

2 (22.2)