(Unlikely to be important)
I happened to come across this as CFS is mentioned somewhere in it.
However, I'm posting it just because I thought it was interesting that receiving compentsation didn't lead to poorer outcomes: it is sometimes thrown at people with ME/CFS, or indeed people with lots of other conditions, that giving them money promotes secondary gain and leads to worse outcomes but this study didn't find that anyway (I don't know if this issue is looked at that much - perhaps it is).
It might also be useful for Gulf war veterans (I'm not sure, but perhaps they and those who served in Afghanistan are move likely to get compensation than veterans from other eras?).
I happened to come across this as CFS is mentioned somewhere in it.
However, I'm posting it just because I thought it was interesting that receiving compentsation didn't lead to poorer outcomes: it is sometimes thrown at people with ME/CFS, or indeed people with lots of other conditions, that giving them money promotes secondary gain and leads to worse outcomes but this study didn't find that anyway (I don't know if this issue is looked at that much - perhaps it is).
It might also be useful for Gulf war veterans (I'm not sure, but perhaps they and those who served in Afghanistan are move likely to get compensation than veterans from other eras?).
Compensation and Treatment: Disability Benefits and Outcomes of U.S. Veterans Receiving Residential PTSD Treatment
Bradley E. Belsher1,2,*, Quyen Q. Tiet2,3,4, Donn W. Garvert2, Craig S. Rosen2,3
Article first published online: 9 OCT 2012
DOI: 10.1002/jts.21747
Journal of Traumatic Stress
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides specialized intensive posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) programs to treat trauma-related symptoms in addition to providing service-connected disability to compensate veterans for injury sustained while serving in the military. Given the percentage of veterans who are receiving treatment for PTSD, in addition to seeking compensation for PTSD, a debate has emerged about the impact of compensation on symptom recovery. This study examined the associations among status of compensation, treatment expectations, military cohort, length of stay, and outcomes for 776 veterans who were enrolled in 5 VA residential PTSD programs between the years of 2005 and 2010. Mixed model longitudinal analyses, with age, gender, and baseline symptoms nested within treatment site in the model, found that treatment expectations were modestly predictive of treatment outcomes. Veterans seeking increased compensation reported marginally lower treatment expectations (d = .008), and did not experience poorer outcomes compared to veterans not seeking increased compensation with the effect of baseline symptoms partialled out. Veterans from the era of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts reported lower treatment expectations (d = .020) and slightly higher symptoms at intake (d = .021), but had outcomes at discharge equivalent to veterans from other eras with baseline symptoms partialled out. These findings help further inform the debate concerning disability benefits and symptom changes across time.