Opioid and Nonpharmacologic Treatments Among Soldiers With Chronic Pain and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study examined the prevalence of chronic pain alone, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) alone, and both chronic pain and PTSD among U.S. Army soldiers during the postdeployment year.

Methods

The sample was 576,425 active duty soldiers returning from deployment in Afghanistan or Iraq between October 1, 2008, and September 30, 2014. Bivariate statistics were used to compare health care utilization among subgroups. Multivariate logistic regression with additional covariates was used to identify predictors of receiving an opioid days' supply of >30 days in the postdeployment year among soldiers with chronic pain, focusing on the effect of PTSD alone and on an interaction of PTSD with nonpharmacologic treatments (including therapeutic exercise, chiropractic treat

SUBMITTER: Saadoun M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8127998 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature