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Table 1 Characteristics of Women Veterans who Completed Semi-Structured Interviews

From: Experiences with VHA care: a qualitative study of U.S. women veterans with self-reported trauma histories

Characteristic

Participants (N = 37)

Age, mean years (SD)

54.7 (9.3)

College experience, %

91.9

Married, %

43.2

Working for pay, %

24.3

Service Era

 Vietnam, %

45.9

 Post-Vietnamb, %

54.1

 Service connected, %

89.2

 Service connected for PTSDa, %

54.1

 Self-reported history of Military Sexual Assault

64.9

  1. a PTSD Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, bIncludes veterans from the 1975–1998 peacetime and Gulf War I eras