APS

2024 APS Annual Convention · 2024

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, and Psychosocial Functioning: A Network Analysis in a Nationally Representative US Veteran Cohort

San Francisco, CA · May 2024

Poster · Clinical Science

  • Haijing Hallenbeck
    National Center for PTSD Dissemination and Training Division, VA Palo Alto Health Care System
  • Haijing Hallenbeck
    Stanford School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
  • Tobias Spiller
    National Center for PTSD, Clinical Neurosciences Division, VA Connecticut Health Care System
  • Tobias Spiller
    Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
  • Tobias Spiller
    Department of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Zurich
  • Eric Kuhn
    National Center for PTSD, Dissemination and Training Division, VA Palo Alto Health Care System
  • Eric Kuhn
  • Marylene Cloitre
    National Center for PTSD, Dissemination and Training Division, VA Palo Alto Health Care System
  • Marylene Cloitre
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Robert Pietrzak
    Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health
  • Robert Pietrzak
    Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
  • Robert Pietrzak
    National Center for PTSD, Clinical Neurosciences Division, VA Connecticut Health Care System

Abstract

In a cross-sectional, nationally representative sample of trauma-exposed veterans (N = 3,847), network analysis revealed that psychosocial functioning had differential connections with PTSD and depression symptoms, with the strongest connections for anhedonia, depressed mood, and restricted affect. It may be beneficial to target these symptoms among Veterans experiencing functioning difficulties.

Psychopathology

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