Chronic Widespread Pain in Veterans of the First Gulf War: Impact of Deployment Status and Associated Health Effects

Journal of Pain

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 954-961

  Forman Hoffman, Valerie L ^a,b,c   Peloso, Paul M ^d   Black, Donald W ^b   Woolson, Robert F ^e   Letuchy, Elena M ^c   Doebbeling, Bradley N ^f,g,h  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d AMGEN INC   (United States)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^f INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; comorbidity; Gulf War; health care utilization; health status; veterans

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARMY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MEDICAL RECORD; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOM SAMPLE; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT FORM 36; VETERAN; WAR;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; VETERANS;

EID: 36348984857     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: 15288447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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