The results suggest that if PTSD is going to go away, it will do so relatively quickly. The new study, named the National Vietnam Veterans Longitudinal Study (NVVLS), interviewed 1,450 of the original participants and found that 11 percent of the men who participated continue to show the symptoms of PTSD and 9 percent of the women met the criteria of being a Vietnam veteran with PTSD. Over 30 percent of the study participants had reported effects that were classified as PTSD at some point during the 15 years since the war ended. The original NVVRS results were published in 1988 and found that current Vietnam veterans with PTSD accounted for 15 percent of the 2.7 million Americans who served in the war.
Of the original participants, over 500 had died between the first and second study. The study sample used almost 1,500 of the over 2,300 National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study (NVVRS) participants. The study was conducted by using a self-reporting health questionnaire and telephone interview from July 2012 through May 2013.
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The latest study, published in JAMA Psychiatry and conducted at the New York University Langone Medical Center, found that over 270,000 Vietnam veterans have “current full PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) plus subthreshold war-zone PTSD, one third of whom have current major depressive disorder.” From the photo collection of veteran Frank Spady, Vietnam door gunner.