VA Mental Disability Claims For many veterans, symptoms of a mental health disability may first appear while on active duty. Veterans can experience symptoms of anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or dissociative identity disorder during their service, but might not be fully diagnosed...
The prevalence of domestic abuse is greater in times of humanitarian crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic has been no different. Considerable evidence indicates that domestic abuse disproportionately impacts the mental health and wellbeing of racially Minor
Laura Dorwart is a health journalist with expertise in disability rights, mental health, and pregnancy-related conditions. She has written for publications like SELF, The New York Times, VICE, and The Guardian. Edited by April McCormick
Added to this complexity is the system of perverse incentives constructed to validate and treat those who suffer unseen injuries of war鈥攖he VA Disability Rating system. If the United States is to adopt "lessons learned" from recent experiences with the psychological effects of combat, six broad...
for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) model were adopted for identification, screening, validating and inclusion of research literature. The self-diagnosis tools for detection of mental disorders like questionnaires and rating scales are inconsistent and static in nature. They cannot encompass...
24 Health-Related Role Impairment The severity of health-related role impairment was assessed with a revised version of the Sheehan Disability Scale26 asking respondents the extent to which problems with physical health, mental health, or alcohol-drug use interfered with their functioning in the past...
Mental illnesses, such as depression, are highly prevalent and have been shown to impact an individual’s physical health. Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) methods have been introduced to assist mental health providers, including psychiatrists and
lifetime mental health disorders an individual has been diagnosed with, because this number provides an integrative measure, and it has been consistently shown that comorbidity of mental health disorders (ie, having more disorders) is related to higher specific symptom severity and overall disability....
Women and men are not equal regarding pain and mental health. Indeed, epidemiological studies show that women are overrepresented in the onset and persistence of pain. In the case of mental health, this type of disparity also exists. Thus, while the differences in the rates of relatively rare...
4-6 The effects of parental mental illness on other child physical health conditions are less well known. Injury is a leading cause of childhood disability worldwide7 and can also have long-term influences on the child and family. Maternal depression has been associated with increased risk of ...