Table 1.
Summary of Characteristics of Included Articles for Rurality and Trauma
| Veterans and non-Veterans | Engaged and non-engaged | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rurality | Trauma | Rurality | Trauma | |
| Total number of articles | 11 | 11 | 14 | 6 |
| Nationally representative dataset | 9 | 6 | 12 | 2 |
| Exclusively men | 5 | 2 | 2 | – |
| Exclusively women | – | 4 | – | 4 |
| Number of participants* | ||||
| 100–1000 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| 1001–5000 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| > 5000 | 6 | 6 | 9 | – |
| Quality | ||||
| Low | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
| Medium | 6 | 5 | 8 | 2 |
| High | 1 | 1 | 2 | – |
| Examined role of social determinant in | ||||
| Health behaviors | – | 5 | – | – |
| Health services access/utilization | 2 | – | 2 | – |
| Mental health | 3 | 3 | 1 | – |
| General health | 1 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Mortality | – | 1 | – | – |
| Other health outcomes | 1 | 1 | 1 | – |
Articles may have addressed more than one social determinant, and may or may not have examined the role of social determinants in health behaviors, health services access, and/or various health outcomes. There were also two included articles87, 89 on sexual orientation both compared Veterans and non-Veterans, using data from national cohorts, included only women, had more than 1000 participants, and were medium quality; one of these examined the role of sexual orientation on mortality and also addressed trauma exposure89
*Number of participants unclear in one article on rurality21