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Contractual Report of Findings from the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study. Volume 1. Executive Summary, Description of Findings, and Technical Appendices.


PB90164203

Publication Date 1988
Personal Author Kulka, R. A.; Schlenger, W. E.; Fairbank, J. A.; Hough, R. L.; Jordan, B. K.
Page Count 644
Abstract The report presents findings from the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study (NVVRS). The NVVRS had three broad goals, as mandated by the Congress and evolved by the Veterans Administration, its consultants, and the research team: To provide information about the incidence, prevalence, and effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related post-war psychological problems among Vietnam veterans; To describe comprehensively the total life adjustment of Vietnam theater veterans and to compare their adjustment to the adjustment of era veterans (persons who served in the Armed Forces during the Vietnam era but did not serve in the Vietnam theater) and nonveterans; To provide detailed scientific information about PTSD in particular.
Keywords
  • Stress(Psychology)
  • Adjustment(Psychology)
  • United States
  • Tables(Data)
  • Vietnam veterans
  • Post-traumatic stress disorders
  • Veterans Administration
  • Combat disorders
  • Mental health services
  • Families
Source Agency
  • Veterans Administration Central Office Library
NTIS Subject Category
  • 74 - Military Sciences
  • 92B - Psychology
  • 57T - Psychiatry
Corporate Authors Research Triangle Inst., Research Triangle Park, NC.; City Univ. of New York. Graduate School and Univ. Center.; Veterans Administration, Washington, DC.; Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Inst., San Francisco, CA.; Harris (Louis) and Associates, Inc., Washington, DC.
Supplemental Notes See also Volume 2, PB90-164211. Prepared in cooperation with Harris (Louis) and Associates, Inc., Washington, DC., City Univ. of New York. Graduate School and Univ. Center, and Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Inst., San Francisco, CA. Sponsored by Veterans Administration, Washington, DC.
Document Type Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number 199009
Contract Number
  • V101(93)P-1040
Contractual Report of Findings from the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study. Volume 1. Executive Summary, Description of Findings, and Technical Appendices.
Contractual Report of Findings from the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study. Volume 1. Executive Summary, Description of Findings, and Technical Appendices.
PB90164203

  • Stress(Psychology)
  • Adjustment(Psychology)
  • United States
  • Tables(Data)
  • Vietnam veterans
  • Post-traumatic stress disorders
  • Veterans Administration
  • Combat disorders
  • Mental health services
  • Families
  • Veterans Administration Central Office Library
  • 74 - Military Sciences
  • 92B - Psychology
  • 57T - Psychiatry
  • V101(93)P-1040
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