Table 3.

Sample Characteristics by Gender and Response Status

Characteristic as obtained from VA databases	Men			Women
	Overall	Respondent?		Overall	Respondent?
		No	Yes		No	Yes
	N = 480	n = 281	n = 199	N = 480	n = 269	n = 211
Age < 30	30.4	35.2***	23.6	32.3	34.2	29.9
Race
White	58.1	58.0	58.3	40.6	37.2	45.0
Black	19.6	19.6	19.6	36.5	37.9	34.6
Hispanic	13.3	11.7	15.6	10.2	11.5	8.5
Asian	6.5	7.1	5.5	6.3	6.0	6.6
Other/Unknown	2.5	3.6	1.0	6.5	7.4	5.2
Combat exposure	67.1	67.3	66.8	41.3	37.6	46.0
Military sexual trauma exposure	2.1	2.1	2.0	45.6	46.5	44.6
Serious mental illness	5.2	4.1	6.7	8.2	5.6*	11.4
Charlson Comorbidity Index > 0	11.7	10.7	13.1	10.0	9.3	10.9
VA disability benefits for PTSD	56.3	54.8	58.3	45.2	40.5*	51.2
Any VA disability benefits	81.9	78.3*	86.9	77.3	75.5	79.6

Results reported as Column Percentages (%). VA Department of Veterans Affairs, PTSD Posttraumatic

stress disorder. Bold face font signifies a statistically significant difference between respondents and non-

respondents within gender

*p ≤ 0.05, ** p ≤ 0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001