Maureen Murdoch

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Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Women and war. What physicians should know
    Maureen Murdoch
    Section of General Internal Medicine, Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 21:S5-10. 2006
  2. ncbi Regional variation and other correlates of Department of Veterans Affairs Disability Awards for patients with posttraumatic stress disorder
    Maureen Murdoch
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minnesota 55417, USA
    Med Care 43:112-21. 2005
  3. ncbi Long-term outcomes of disability benefits in US veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder
    Maureen Murdoch
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Section of General Internal Medicine, Minneapolis Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, USA
    Arch Gen Psychiatry 68:1072-80. 2011
  4. ncbi Unreliability and error in the military's "gold standard" measure of sexual harassment by education and gender
    Maureen Murdoch
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcome Research, Department of Medicine, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55417, USA
    J Trauma Dissociation 12:216-31. 2011
  5. ncbi Race and ethnicity as factors in mental health service use among veterans with PTSD
    Michele R Spoont
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
    J Trauma Stress 22:648-53. 2009
  6. ncbi The association between military sexual stress and psychiatric symptoms after controlling for other stressors
    Maureen Murdoch
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
    J Psychiatr Res 44:1129-36. 2010
  7. ncbi Mitigating effect of Department of Veterans Affairs disability benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder on low income
    Maureen Murdoch
    Minneapolis VAMC/Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research and Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, One Veterans Drive (111-0, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
    Mil Med 170:137-40. 2005
  8. ncbi Gender Differences in service connection for PTSD
    Maureen Murdoch
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research and Section of General Internal Medicine, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, and Department of Internal Medicine, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis Minnesota 55417, USA
    Med Care 41:950-61. 2003
  9. ncbi Prevalence of in-service and post-service sexual assault among combat and noncombat veterans applying for Department of Veterans Affairs posttraumatic stress disorder disability benefits
    Maureen Murdoch
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research and Section General Internal Medicine, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, One Veterans Drive (111-0, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
    Mil Med 169:392-5. 2004
  10. ncbi Predeployment gender differences in stressors and mental health among U.S. National Guard troops poised for Operation Iraqi Freedom deployment
    Robin Carter-Visscher
    Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center VAMC, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
    J Trauma Stress 23:78-85. 2010

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Publications32

  1. ncbi Women and war. What physicians should know
    Maureen Murdoch
    Section of General Internal Medicine, Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 21:S5-10. 2006
    ..We then describe some of the medical and psychiatric conditions associated with military service...
  2. ncbi Regional variation and other correlates of Department of Veterans Affairs Disability Awards for patients with posttraumatic stress disorder
    Maureen Murdoch
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minnesota 55417, USA
    Med Care 43:112-21. 2005
    ..Receipt of such benefits enhances veterans' access to Veteran Affairs health care and reduces their chance of poverty...
  3. ncbi Long-term outcomes of disability benefits in US veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder
    Maureen Murdoch
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Section of General Internal Medicine, Minneapolis Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, USA
    Arch Gen Psychiatry 68:1072-80. 2011
    ..Such practices may bias findings against recipients because disability applicants tend to be much sicker than never-applicants. Furthermore, these studies ignore the outcomes of denied claimants...
  4. ncbi Unreliability and error in the military's "gold standard" measure of sexual harassment by education and gender
    Maureen Murdoch
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcome Research, Department of Medicine, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55417, USA
    J Trauma Dissociation 12:216-31. 2011
    ..The SHCore may be particularly ill suited for evaluating population trends of sexual harassment in military men without college experience...
  5. ncbi Race and ethnicity as factors in mental health service use among veterans with PTSD
    Michele R Spoont
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
    J Trauma Stress 22:648-53. 2009
    ..After adjustment, veteran race, but not Hispanic ethnicity, was associated with decreases in some pharmacotherapy measures and increases in some counseling measures...
  6. ncbi The association between military sexual stress and psychiatric symptoms after controlling for other stressors
    Maureen Murdoch
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
    J Psychiatr Res 44:1129-36. 2010
    ..Organizational- and individual-level predictors of military sexual stress were also assessed...
  7. ncbi Mitigating effect of Department of Veterans Affairs disability benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder on low income
    Maureen Murdoch
    Minneapolis VAMC/Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research and Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, One Veterans Drive (111-0, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
    Mil Med 170:137-40. 2005
    ..CONCLUSIONS: VA disability benefits for PTSD reduced odds of impoverishment for psychiatrically ill veterans. This effect appeared to be especially important for African American veterans and for veterans self-identifying as disabled...
  8. ncbi Gender Differences in service connection for PTSD
    Maureen Murdoch
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research and Section of General Internal Medicine, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, and Department of Internal Medicine, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis Minnesota 55417, USA
    Med Care 41:950-61. 2003
    ..quot;Service connected" veterans have documented, compensative conditions related to or aggravated by military service, and they receive priority for enrollment into the VA healthcare system...
  9. ncbi Prevalence of in-service and post-service sexual assault among combat and noncombat veterans applying for Department of Veterans Affairs posttraumatic stress disorder disability benefits
    Maureen Murdoch
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research and Section General Internal Medicine, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, One Veterans Drive (111-0, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
    Mil Med 169:392-5. 2004
    ..In this population, male gender and veterans' combat status should not dissuade clinicians from screening for sexual traumas...
  10. ncbi Predeployment gender differences in stressors and mental health among U.S. National Guard troops poised for Operation Iraqi Freedom deployment
    Robin Carter-Visscher
    Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center VAMC, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
    J Trauma Stress 23:78-85. 2010
    ..Implications for interventions and future research are discussed...
  11. ncbi Early mental health treatment-seeking among U.S. National Guard soldiers deployed to Iraq
    Shannon M Kehle
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis Veteran Affairs Medical Center, and Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
    J Trauma Stress 23:33-40. 2010
    ..Implications and future research directions are discussed...
  12. ncbi The association between in-service sexual harassment and post-traumatic stress disorder among Department of Veterans Affairs disability applicants
    Maureen Murdoch
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, d Section of General Internal Medicine, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
    Mil Med 171:166-73. 2006
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  13. ncbi Military to civilian questionnaire: a measure of postdeployment community reintegration difficulty among veterans using Department of Veterans Affairs medical care
    Nina A Sayer
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis VA Health Care System, One Veterans Drive, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55417, USA
    J Trauma Stress 24:660-70. 2011
    ..Nonwhite and unemployed veterans reported greater community reintegration difficulty (d = 0.20 and 0.45, respectively). Findings offer preliminary support for the reliability and construct validity of M2C-Q scores...
  14. ncbi From trauma to PTSD: beliefs about sensations, symptoms, and mental illness
    Michele R Spoont
    Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
    Qual Health Res 19:1456-65. 2009
    ..Difficulties that veterans experienced in evaluating their posttrauma reactions and in labeling them as PTSD mirror issues that have been raised about the diagnosis of PTSD in the professional literature...
  15. ncbi Treatment receipt by veterans after a PTSD diagnosis in PTSD, mental health, or general medical clinics
    Michele R Spoont
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA michele spoont va gov
    Psychiatr Serv 61:58-63. 2010
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  16. ncbi Racial disparities in VA service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder disability
    Maureen Murdoch
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minnesota 55417, USA
    Med Care 41:536-49. 2003
    ..For some veterans, service connection represents the difference between access to VA health care facilities and no access...
  17. ncbi Local social norms and military sexual stressors: do senior officers' norms matter?
    Maureen Murdoch
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research Section General Internal Medicine, Minneapolis VA Medical Center and Department of Internal Medicine, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, One Veterans Drive 111 0, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
    Mil Med 174:1100-4. 2009
    ..To examine the relative importance of harassment-tolerant norms emanating from troops senior officers, immediate supervisors, and units on troops' sexual stressor experiences and to see whether associations differed by sex...
  18. ncbi Reactions to a survey among those who were and were not sexually assaulted while serving in the military
    Alicia A Sandberg
    Minneapolis VA Health Care System, MN 55417, USA
    Psychol Rep 110:461-8. 2012
    ..Implications for future research are discussed...
  19. ncbi A qualitative study of U.S. veterans' reasons for seeking Department of Veterans Affairs disability benefits for posttraumatic stress disorder
    Nina A Sayer
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis VA Health Care System, One Veterans Drive, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55417, USA
    J Trauma Stress 24:699-707. 2011
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  20. ncbi Effect of health-related quality of life on women and men's Veterans Affairs (VA) health care utilization and mortality
    Jasvinder A Singh
    Rheumatology Section, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 22:1260-7. 2007
    ..Although women will account for almost 11% of veterans by 2040, we know little about their health and functioning, particularly compared to men...
  21. ncbi Reintegration problems and treatment interests among Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans receiving VA medical care
    Nina A Sayer
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 1 Veterans Dr, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
    Psychiatr Serv 61:589-97. 2010
    ....
  22. ncbi On counterbalancing of symptom-reporting in trauma surveys
    Madhavi K Reddy
    VA Medical Center 116A9, One Veterans Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
    Psychol Rep 105:1154-8. 2009
    ..Results indicate ordering of symptom measures immediately before or after reports of combat experiences did not influence reports of PTSD symptoms. Implications of results are discussed...
  23. ncbi Functioning and psychiatric symptoms among military men and women exposed to sexual stressors
    Maureen Murdoch
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
    Mil Med 172:718-25. 2007
    ..The goal was to describe military men's and women's functioning and psychiatric symptoms according to their military sexual stressor exposure...
  24. ncbi The role of cumulative sexual trauma and difficulties identifying feelings in understanding female veterans' physical health outcomes
    Melissa A Polusny
    Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
    Gen Hosp Psychiatry 30:162-70. 2008
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  25. ncbi A qualitative study of determinants of PTSD treatment initiation in veterans
    Nina A Sayer
    Center for Chronic Diseases Outcomes Research, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
    Psychiatry 72:238-55. 2009
    ..Finally, we offer suggestions regarding the direction of future research and the development of interventions to promote timely help-seeking for PTSD...
  26. ncbi Sex differences in the factor structure of a modified Sexual Experiences Questionnaire
    Madhavi K Reddy
    Minneapolis VA Medical Center, MN, USA
    Psychol Rep 107:773-83. 2010
    ..Implications and suggestions for improving the validity of the questionnaire for men are offered...
  27. ncbi Changes in psychiatric status and service use associated with continued compensation seeking after claim determinations for posttraumatic stress disorder
    Nina A Sayer
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
    J Trauma Stress 21:40-8. 2008
    ..Results have implications for the design and direction of future research...
  28. ncbi Randomized trial showed that an "embedded" survey strategy optimized authorization rates compared with two "after survey" strategies in veterans with PTSD
    Maureen Murdoch
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
    J Clin Epidemiol 63:665-71. 2010
    ..To test methods to optimize mail survey response and authorization rates (i.e., allowing one's survey to be linked to medical records) when the survey is sensitive and the targeted population has a mental disorder...
  29. ncbi Randomized trial showed requesting medical records with a survey produced a more representative sample than requesting separately
    Melissa R Partin
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis VA Medical Center 2E 152, 1 Veterans Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
    J Clin Epidemiol 61:1028-35. 2008
    ..The objective of the study was to compare the effect of two approaches to requesting medical records on survey response rates, sample representativeness, and the quality of self-reported screening...
  30. ncbi Time, gender, and regional trends in the application for service-related post-traumatic stress disorder disability benefits, 1980-1998
    Maureen Murdoch
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research and Section General Internal Medicine, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
    Mil Med 168:662-70. 2003
    ..Research is needed to understand why claim approval rates vary by region...
  31. ncbi Health-related quality of life, functional impairment, and healthcare utilization by veterans: veterans' quality of life study
    Jasvinder A Singh
    Medicine Service, Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55417, USA
    J Am Geriatr Soc 53:108-13. 2005
    ..To describe the health status of veterans receiving care in a veterans integrated service network (VISN)...
  32. ncbi Spontaneous reports of emotional upset and health care utilization among veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder after receiving a potentially upsetting survey
    Krysten Halek
    Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
    Am J Orthopsychiatry 75:142-51. 2005
    ..In general, surveyed veterans' HCU decreased after receipt of the survey...