The prevalence of PTSD in U.S. military veterans is higher than previous estimates, according to results of a cross-sectional, retrospective study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
“The most recent data on the epidemiology of PTSD in veterans were published in 2016,” Blair Wisco, PhD, of the department of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and colleagues wrote. “Because the demographic composition of the U.S. military veteran population is rapidly changing, there is a need for an updated prevalence in a contemporary sample.”