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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 3.
Published in final edited form as: Womens Health Issues. 2012 Sep;22(5):e461–e471. doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2012.06.005

Table 1.

Characteristics of women veterans by mental health status

Total N = 71,504 No MH Dx n = 40,347 PTSD (no depression) n = 4,279 Depression (no PTSD) n = 9,756 PTSD+Depression n = 11,024 Other MH Dx n = 6,098
Age M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD
29.3 8.2 29.5 8.4 28.5 7.6 29.3 7.9 29.4 8.0 28.5 7.6
Race n % n % n % n % n % n %
    White 28398 39.7 15857 39.3 1881 44.0 3737 38.3 4236 38.4 2687 44.1
    Black 13048 18.3 7231 17.9 818 19.1 1639 16.8 2327 21.1 1033 16.9
    Hispanic 7597 10.6 4228 10.5 477 11.1 1012 10.4 1229 11.2 651 10.7
    Other/Unknown 22461 31.4 13031 32.3 1103 25.8 3368 34.5 3232 29.3 1727 28.3
Marital status
    Married 23682 33.1 13340 33.1 1366 31.9 3246 33.2 3880 35.2 1850 30.3
    Never Married 41890 58.6 23860 59.1 2561 59.9 5636 57.8 6025 54.7 3808 62.5
    Divorced/ Widowed/Other 5932 8.3 3147 7.8 352 8.2 874 9.0 1119 10.1 440 7.2
Component
    Active Component 40659 56.9 22701 56.3 2325 54.3 6007 61.6 6295 57.1 3331 54.6
    Nat'l Guard/Reserve 30845 43.1 17646 43.7 1954 45.7 3749 38.4 4729 42.9 2767 45.4
Officer
    Enlisted 64861 90.7 35601 88.2 4004 93.6 9173 94.0 10416 94.5 5667 92.9
    Officer 6643 9.3 4746 11.8 275 6.4 583 6.0 608 5.5 431 7.1
Branch
    Army 44335 62.0 23220 57.6 3251 76.0 5682 58.2 8282 75.1 3900 63.9
    Marines 2903 4.1 1594 3.9 238 5.5 348 3.6 472 4.3 251 4.1
    Navy/Coast Guard 11652 16.3 7087 17.6 354 8.3 2000 20.5 1183 10.7 1028 16.9
    Air Force 12614 17.6 8446 20.9 436 10.2 1726 17.7 1087 9.9 919 15.1
Multiple Deployment
Single deployment 49382 69.1 27751 68.8 2840 66.4 6966 71.4 7539 68.4 4286 70.3
Multiple deployments 22122 30.9 12596 31.2 1439 33.6 2790 28.6 3485 31.6 1812 29.7

Note. All p <.0001 for comparison to No mental health diagnoses group