Medium- and high-combat veterans were more likely to report that military experience affected coping than low-combat (OR 2.4, 95% CI 1.51–3.96 2.6, 95% CI 1.41–4.61, respectively). Military experiences were found to affect coping with 41.4% reporting they affected ability to cope with COVID-19. The response rate was 74% ( N = 507) 422 (61.6%) completed the COVID-19 supplement. A survey supplement assessed coping with the pandemic and adherence to public health guidelines. Participants were part of a randomly sampled cohort of American Legionnaires who responded to two previous surveys (1984, 1998), were born 1945-1953 and deployed to Vietnam 1963-1973, thus representing an aging veteran population. We examine the extent that current PTSD symptoms and trauma reengagement relate to preventive practices. We explore whether military combat experiences in Vietnam affect veterans' perceived abilities to cope with COVID-19 and whether current PTSD symptoms and later-adulthood reengagement with trauma memories are related to coping. Little is known about how new stressful situations, like the COVID-19 pandemic, affect previously traumatized people or whether they will react differently to them. Many Vietnam War veterans who experienced military trauma still exhibit PTSD symptomatology.
3Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System and Departments of Epidemiology and Psychiatry, Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine, Boston, MA, United States.2Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States.1Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States.Stellman 2 † Avron Spiro III 3 Anica Pless Kaiser 4 Brian N.
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