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Citation

St Cyr K, McIntyre-Smith A, Contractor AA, Elhai JD, Richardson JD. Psychiatry Res. 2014; 218(1-2): 148-152.

Affiliation

Parkwood Hospital Operational Stress Injury Clinic, St. Joseph׳s Health Care, London, Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.psychres.2014.03.038

PMID

24745465

Abstract

This study examined the association between somatic complaints and health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) in treatment-seeking Canadian military personnel with military-related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Current and former Canadian Forces (CF) members attending the Parkwood Hospital Operational Stress Injury Clinic in London, Ontario (N=291) were administered self-report questionnaires assessing number and severity of somatic complaints, PTSD and depressive symptom severity, and mental and physical health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) prior to commencing treatment. Regression analyses were used to identify the role of somatic complaints on physical and mental HR-QoL, after controlling for PTSD symptom cluster and depressive symptom severity. Somatic symptom severity accounted for only a small amount of the variance in mental HR-QoL after accounting for PTSD symptom cluster and depressive symptom severity, but accounted for a larger proportion of the variance in physical HR-QoL after accounting for PTSD cluster and depressive symptom severity. Understanding the role of somatization in the symptom-presentation of military personnel with PTSD may provide additional avenues for treatment with this population.


Language: en

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