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Clinical Research Article

The influence of depression-PTSD comorbidity on health-related quality of life in treatment-seeking veterans

La influencia de la comorbilidad depresión-TEPT en la calidad de vida relacionada con la salud en los veteranos que buscan tratamiento

抑郁-PTSD共病对寻求治疗的退伍军人健康相关生活质量的影响

Callista Forchuka The MacDonald Franklin OSI Research Centre, Parkwood Institute, St. Joseph’s Health Care, London, Ontario, CanadaView further author information
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Anthony Nazarova The MacDonald Franklin OSI Research Centre, Parkwood Institute, St. Joseph’s Health Care, London, Ontario, Canada;b Department of Psychiatry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada;c Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, CanadaView further author information
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Renee Hunta The MacDonald Franklin OSI Research Centre, Parkwood Institute, St. Joseph’s Health Care, London, Ontario, Canada;b Department of Psychiatry, Western University, London, Ontario, CanadaView further author information
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Brent Davisa The MacDonald Franklin OSI Research Centre, Parkwood Institute, St. Joseph’s Health Care, London, Ontario, Canada;d Computer Science Department, Western University, London, Ontario, CanadaView further author information
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Kate St. Cyra The MacDonald Franklin OSI Research Centre, Parkwood Institute, St. Joseph’s Health Care, London, Ontario, Canada;e Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaView further author information
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J. Don Richardsona The MacDonald Franklin OSI Research Centre, Parkwood Institute, St. Joseph’s Health Care, London, Ontario, Canada;b Department of Psychiatry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada;c Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada;f OSI Clinic, Parkwood Institute, St. Joseph’s Health Care, London, Ontario, CanadaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Article: 1748460 | Received 24 Dec 2019, Accepted 26 Feb 2020, Published online: 04 Jun 2020

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Table 1. Sociodemographic characteristics of the study sample (sample size = 545).

Table 2. Clinical and health-related quality of life characteristics of the study sample.

Table 3. Hierarchical regression: Depression x PTSD symptomatology predicting Mental Component Score (MCS).

Figure 1. Predicted Mental Component Score (MCS), and Role Emotional (RE) according to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom severity, across three levels of depression symptom severity. Higher scores on PTSD and depression indicate more severe symptomatology. Higher scores on MCS and RE indicate better health-related quality of life.

Figure 1. Predicted Mental Component Score (MCS), and Role Emotional (RE) according to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom severity, across three levels of depression symptom severity. Higher scores on PTSD and depression indicate more severe symptomatology. Higher scores on MCS and RE indicate better health-related quality of life.

Table 4. Hierarchical regression: Depression x PTSD symptomatology predicting Physical Component Score (PCS).

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