Almost one third of Iraq/Afghanistan women veterans with PTSD report military sexual trauma
Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
Thirty-one percent of women veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder reported military sexual trauma (MST), in contrast to one percent of men with PTSD, according to a study led by Shira Maguen, PhD, a psychologist at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
