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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2026 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatry Res. 2025 Mar 30;348:116477. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2025.116477

Table 1.

Well-being Outcome Measures

Variable Name Item Definition
Rate Health (Self-Reported) “In general, would you say your health is”:
Rate Quality of Life (Self-Reported) “In general, would you say your quality of life is”:
Rate Physical (Self-Reported) “In general, how would you rate your physical health?”:
Rate Mental (Self-Reported) “In general, how would you rate your mental health, including your mood and your ability to think?”
Rate Social (Self-Reported) “In general, how would you rate your satisfaction with your social activities and relationships?”
Average Pain (Self-Reported) “In the past seven days, how would you rate your pain on average?”
Average Fatigue (Self-Reported) “In the past seven days, how would you rate your fatigue?”
Emotional Problems (Self-Reported) “In the past seven days, how often have you been bothered by emotional problems such as feeling anxious, depressed, or irritable?”
Diagnosed Conditions (EHR) Additional diagnoses typically occurring in PTSD patients include:
  • Irritable bowel syndrome (Oroian et al., 2021; Pacella et al., 2013)
  • Hypertensive Disorder (Krantz et al., 2022)
  • Crohn’s Disease (Oroian et al., 2021)
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Krantz et al., 2022)
  • Rheumatoid Arthritis (Oroian et al., 2021)
  • Parkinson’s Disease (Barer et al., 2022)
  • Obesity (Oroian et al., 2021)
  • Type 2 diabetes mellitus (Krantz et al., 2022)
  • Hashimoto thyroiditis (Oroian et al., 2021)
  • Alzheimer’s disease (Flatt et al., 2018)
  • Bipolar disorder (Davis et al., 2022)
  • Asthma (Allgire et al., 2021)

Note. Variables were coded as follows: Rate Health, Rate QoL, Rate Physical, Rate Mental, Rate Social: 1 (Poor) to 5 (Excellent); Average Pain: 0 to 10 for increasing level of pain; Average Fatigue: 1 (Very Severe) to 5 (None); Emotional Problems: 1 (Always) to 5 (Never); Diagnosed Conditions 0 to 12 for the existence of additional diagnoses.