Post-9/11 veterans perceptions of the pandemic: Areas of greatest impact on health and well-being.
PEC Innov
; 1: 100096, 2022 Dec.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2095879
ABSTRACT
Objective:
Assess potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on a subset of Post-9/11 U.S. Veterans included in a study of post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE).Methods:
Two measures were added to a structured health interview for Veterans during temporary pandemic research shutdown a validated health questionnaire [1] previously completed by survey, and a semi-structured instrument developed to assess whether pandemic conditions affected responses to the health questionnaire and identify unique impacts. Interviews were conducted between August 2020 - February 2021. Scaled items were calculated and t-tests used to compare results. Open-ended items were coded using thematic analyses.Results:
Veterans identified eight major areas of impact with negative and positive impacts mental health, family, social, work/employment, access to resources, physical health, finances, and education. Innovation The temporary shut-down of a large health study for Post-9/11 Veterans provided an opportunity to devise an instrument to assess COVID-19's impact on health and well-being. The instrument was accepted as of the first Veteran instrument in a pandemic SDOH research repository [2], and is being used in other studies.Conclusion:
This study highlights the need to assess and understand interrelated relationships of factors impacting health and well-being, especially as COVID-19 moves from pandemic to endemic with reverberating effects across multiple social determinants of health (SDOH).
COVID-19 impact; PTE, Post-traumatic epilepsy; PWE, people with epilepsy; Qualitative methods; REDCap, Research Electronic Data Capture; SDOH, social determinants of health; TBI, traumatic brain injury; Thematic analysis; USAMRDC, United States Army Medical Research & Development Command; VA, Veteran Affairs; VR-12, Veteran's RAND 12 item health survey; Veteran health; Veteran well-being; mTBI, mild traumatic brain injury
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Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Qualitative research
Language:
English
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PEC Innov
Year:
2022
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Article
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