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Gender Findings:<br />

Functional Impairment, Utilization and Barriers<br />

Functional Impairment:<br />

• For both genders, post‐deployment trauma symptoms associated with relationship<br />

disruption<br />

– Limitation: largely male sample<br />

• Among Veterans with PTSD, women report more health and interpersonal<br />

impairment than men<br />

Utilization and Barriers:<br />

• OEF/OIF women using VA are younger and show greater increase in primary care<br />

and mental health service use<br />

• Barriers include service eligibility ibilit awareness and perceptions about providers<br />

VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION<br />

Sourced from Frayne 2011; Fontana 2010; Haskell 2011; Sayers 2009. Sourced from<br />

Friedman 2011; Washington 2011.

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