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Military Sexual Trauma-related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Service-connection: Characteristics of Claimants and Award Denial Across Gender, Race, and Compared to Combat Trauma
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veterans Benefits Administration denied a higher percentage of service-connection disability benefits claims by people who suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder related to military sexual trauma than for people who submitted PTSD combat-related claims, according to a new study by Yale researchers, including lead author Aliya Webermann, PhD, and senior author Anne Black, PhD.