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- Title
Veterans' Distress Related to Participation in a Study About Detainee Abuse.
- Authors
Gariti, Katherine O.; Sadeghi, Leila; Joisa, Sowmya D.; Holmes, William C.
- Abstract
Unintended consequences of participating in research studies are not well characterized, particularly in veterans who are frequent study participants. Our objective, then, was to assess the rate of and variables associated with distress resulting from veterans' participation in a study on a sensitive subject. Veterans Administration (VA) hospital out-patients were administered questionnaires with three increasingly severe scenarios of a U.S. soldier abusing a detainee. Distress--upset requiring clinical intervention--was assessed, as were sociodemographic characteristics, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and locus of control (LOC). Three hundred fifty-one veterans participated. Forty-three (12%) became distressed. Modeling indicated distress was associated with minority status (odds ratio [OR] -- 5.72, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.59, 20.58), PTSD (OR = 2.66, 95% CI -- 1.12, 6.29), and external LOC (OR = 6.27, 95% CI = 2.82, 13.90). Distress related to study participation was high in this veteran sample. Higher rates in some subgroups suggested that some individuals may not be able to accurately anticipate risk for harm in sensitive studies.
- Subjects
UNITED States; AMERICAN veterans; PSYCHOLOGICAL distress; HUMAN research subjects; PRISONER abuse; POST-traumatic stress disorder; MENTAL depression; LOCUS of control
- Publication
Military Medicine, 2009, Vol 174, Issue 11, p1149
- ISSN
0026-4075
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7205/MILMED-D-00-1209