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Cohort R46: Mortality Patterns in Veterans with Psychiatric Diagnoses in WWII
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Title: Cohort R46: Mortality Patterns in Veterans with Psychiatric Diagnoses in WWII
Summary: This cohort consists of 9,814 white males born in the years 1914-1918, who served in World War II but were released with a diagnosis of psychoneurosis. The classification of psychoneurosis used in 1944 includes eight categories of illness: hysteria, anxiety, neurasthenia, neurocirculatory neurasthenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, mixed psychoneuroses, reaction depression, and finally, other and unspecified psychoneuroses. A comparison group of 9,942 age, race, and service-matched individuals is included.
References:
Keehn RJ and Goldberg ID. Mortality among Army veterans with disability separation for psychoneurosis in 1944. Washington, DC. National Academy Press, 1972.
Keywords: psychoneurosis; psychiatric illness; mortality
Cohort Characteristics: 19,756 total records
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Data item |
Exposed (n=9,814) |
Comparison (n=9,942) |
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Military service number: |
100% complete |
100% complete |
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VA claim folder number: |
100% complete |
78% complete |
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Full name: |
100% complete |
100% complete |
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Rank: |
100% complete |
100% complete |
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Date of birth: |
100% complete |
100% complete |
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Date of death: |
12% complete |
10% complete |
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Cause of death: |
96% |
95% |
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Date of entry into active duty: |
100% complete |
100% complete |
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Date of release from active duty: |
100% complete |
100% complete |
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Last Updated: 8/15/2005, 01:43 PM
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