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Table 3 Health domains surveyed by major studies of U.S. veterans of the first Gulf War

From: An assessment of survey measures used across key epidemiologic studies of United States Gulf War I Era Veterans

Domain

Devens Cohort Study

New Orleans

VA Registry

Nat’l Health Survey

DoD Registry

PA & HI

Iowa

Seabees

OR & WA

Air Nat’l Guard

Kansas I

Kansas II

Millennium Cohort

Military Health Survey

Medical history and clinical diagnoses

X, XS

XS

X, XS

X

X

 

X, XS

X, XS

X

X

X

X

X

X

Symptoms

X, XS

X, XS

X, XS

X

X

X

X

X, XS

X

X

X

X

X

X

Functional and health status

X, XS

XS

X, XS

X, XS

  

X

X

XS

XS

X

X

X

X

Fatigue, CFS, fibromyalgia, MCS, MSI

X, XS

 

XS

X, XS

 

X

X

X, XS

XS

XS

X

X

X, XS

X

PTSD

X, XS

X, XS

XS

X, XS

Xs

X

X, XS

X, XS

XS

XS

X

X

X

X

Clinical evaluation and validation

Xs

 

X, XS

XS

X

 

X, XS

XS

X, XS

XS

 

X

X

XS

Family and social support

X

XS

    

XS

       

Intelligence

XS

XS

 

XS

  

XS

       

Personality

X

XS

XS

           

Psychiatric status

X, XS

X, XS

XS

XS

XS

X

X

XS

XS

   

X

X

Depression

 

X, XS

 

X, XS

XS

 

X

 

XS

XS

  

X

X

Anxiety

 

X, XS

 

XS

  

X

 

XS

   

X

X

Memory

XS

XS

 

XS

  

XS

 

XS

    

X

Executive function

XS

XS

XS

XS

  

X, XS

X

XS

     

Psychomotor function

XS

XS

 

XS

  

XS

XS

 

XS

    

Quality of life

   

XS

        

X

 

References

[3, 7, 25, 26, 3943]

[3, 8, 42, 4447]

[9, 24, 4852]

[10, 29, 5356]

[30, 57]

[17, 58, 59]

[2, 60, 61]

[12, 31]

[32, 62, 63]

[4]

[1]

[14]

[34, 64, 65]a

[16, 35]

  1. Abbreviations: CFS chronic fatigue syndrome, DoD Department of Defense, HI Hawaii, MCS multiple chemical sensitivity, MSI multisymptom illness, OR Oregon, PA Pennsylvania, PTSD post-traumatic stress disorder, VA Department of Veterans Affairs, WA Washington.
  2. Note: subscripted “S” designates that some data for that domain are only available for a subset of the study sample.
  3. a Additional reference: personal communication by Dr. Nancy Crum-Cianflone of the Naval Health Research Center.