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ArticleInternational journal of methods in psychiatric research2017

The Post-Deployment Mental Health (PDMH) study and repository: A multi-site study of US Afghanistan and Iraq era veterans.

Mira Brancu, H Ryan Wagner, Rajendra A Morey, Jean C Beckham, Patrick S Calhoun, Larry A Tupler, Christine E Marx, Katherine H Taber, Robin A Hurley, Jared Rowland and 7 more

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Article in International journal of methods in psychiatric research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

51 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  9. Accelerated Epigenetic Aging and Prospective Morbidity and Mortality Among U.S. Veterans.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2025
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  10. Trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder, and incident chronic disease.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2025
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  11. Accelerated biological aging and midlife frailty among U.S. military veterans.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2025
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  17. Enjoying the violence of war: Association with posttraumatic symptomatology in U.S. combat veterans.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors.

Mira BrancuDurham VA Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4317-5228
H Ryan WagnerDurham VA Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Rajendra A MoreyDurham VA Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Jean C BeckhamDurham VA Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Patrick S CalhounDurham VA Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Larry A TuplerDurham VA Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Christine E MarxDurham VA Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Katherine H TaberW.G. Hefner VA Medical Center, Salisbury, North Carolina, USA.
Robin A HurleyW.G. Hefner VA Medical Center, Salisbury, North Carolina, USA.
Jared RowlandW.G. Hefner VA Medical Center, Salisbury, North Carolina, USA.
Scott D McDonaldHunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
Jeffrey M HoerleDurham VA Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Scott D MooreDurham VA Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Harold S KudlerMental Health Services, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
Richard D WeinerDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
VA Mid-Atlantic MIRECC Workgroup
John A FairbankDurham VA Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.

Funding

White Matter Damage in Subconcussive Blast ExposureR01NS086885 · NINDS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI MOREY, RAJENDRA A · 2014 to 2018
$1.7M
CSRD VA I01 CX000120CSRD VA I01 CX000748CSRD VA IK2 CX000718NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS086885RRD VA IK2 RX001298
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The United States (US) Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC) Post-Deployment Mental Health (PDMH) multi-site study examines post-deployment mental health in US military Afghanistan/Iraq-era veterans. The study includes the comprehensive behavioral health characterization of over 3600 study participants and the genetic, metabolomic, neurocognitive, and neuroimaging data for many of the participants. The study design also incorporates an infrastructure for a data repository to re-contact participants for follow-up studies. The overwhelming majority (94%) of participants consented to be re-contacted for future studies, and our recently completed feasibility study indicates that 73-83% of these participants could be reached successfully for enrollment into longitudinal follow-up investigations. Longitudinal concurrent cohort follow-up studies will be conducted (5-10+ years post-baseline) to examine predictors of illness chronicity, resilience, recovery, functional outcome, and other variables, and will include neuroimaging, genetic/epigenetic, serum biomarker, and neurocognitive studies, among others. To date, the PDMH study has generated more than 35 publications from the baseline data and the repository has been leveraged in over 20 publications from follow-up studies drawing from this cohort. Limitations that may affect data collection for a longitudinal follow-up study are also presented.

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Databases, FactualAdolescentAdultAfghan Campaign 2001-AgedFemaleHumansIraq War, 2003-2011MaleMental DisordersMiddle AgedUnited StatesUnited States Department of Veterans AffairsVeteransYoung AdultAfghanistanIraqmental healthpost-deploymentveterans

Identifiers

PMID28656593
PMCPMC6492939

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