Opportunities to More Comprehensively Assess Sexual Violence Experience in Veterans Health Administration Medical Records Data.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Experience of sexual violence (SV) is prevalent among the Veteran population and associated with many negative mental and physical health outcomes including suicidal behavior, obesity, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, and poor sexual and reproductive functioning. Although Veterans of any gender may experience SV, women Veterans are particularly at risk. Research on SV among Veterans has focused primarily on the experience of SV during military service (military sexual trauma, MST), although Veterans may also experience SV prior to and following military service. The aim of the current study was to construct a more comprehensive method of identifying SV among Veterans Health Administration (VHA) patients as documented in medical records in a national

SUBMITTER: Hollis BF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9481829 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature