Prospective Study of Veteran Health in Previously Deployed Soldiers
Completed
Conditions studied: Combat Disorders
In brief
Background: Previous deployments like that to the Persian Gulf in 1991 produced veterans with post-deployment symptom-based health problems with no medical explanation. This was termed Gulf War illness or medically unexplained illness (MUI). If previous wars are any indication, some soldiers currently deployed to hostile areas also will return home with unexplained symptom-based illnesses. However, when this study began there was virtually no pre-war, prospective data on risk and resilience factors associated with MUI. This study is attempting to fill that gap. Objectives: Our goals are to: (a) determine pre- and immediate post-deployment factors predicting later MUI and poor functional status, (b) improve previous methodological problems (e.g., selection bias, recall bias and lack of baseline controls) in studies of MUI, and (c) relate pre-deployment risk factors (e.g., personality, stressor reactivity) and resilience factors (e.g., coping style, social support) to post-deployment functional status.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00285246
- Run by
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
- People needed
- 838
- Starts
- 2005-12-01
- Expected to finish
- 2011-02-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2015-05-12
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 60. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Army Reserve and National Guard soldiers deploying to a hazardous deployment from Fort Dix, New Jersey (NJ) and Camp Shelby, Mississippi (MS)
You may not qualify if…
- There are some drug exclusions for anything that substantially affects cardiovascular function.
Where it is running
- G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center, Jackson, MS — Jackson, Mississippi, United States
- East Orange Campus of the VA New Jersey Health Care System, East Orange, NJ — East Orange, New Jersey, United States
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