Comorbidity and functional correlates of anxiety and physical conditions in Canadian Veterans
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Introduction: Little is known about the relationship between anxiety disorders and physical conditions in Canadian Veterans. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the comorbidity of anxiety and physical conditions and their relation to physical and mental health–related quality of life and activity limitations in a nationally representative sample of Canadian Veterans. Methods: Participants were selected from the cross-sectional 2010 Survey on Transition to Civilian Life ( N = 3,154, response rate = 71.0%). The sample consisted of former Canadian Armed Forces Regular Force personnel who were released from 1998 to 2007. Multivariate logistic and linear regression models evaluated associations between several commonly occurring chronic physical conditions and any anxiety disorder and correlates (i.e., quality of life and activity limitations) of comorbidity. Results: Any anxiety disorder was associated with significantly elevated rates of cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, respiratory, and musculoskeletal conditions; diabetes; and chronic pain after controlling for sociodemographics, military characteristics, any mood disorder, and heavy drinking. However, when additionally controlling for number of physical conditions, any anxiety disorder remained significantly associated with gastrointestinal conditions (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 1.63, 99% confidence interval [CI] = 1.07–2.50) and chronic pain (AOR = 1.79, 99% CI = 1.15–2.78). Co-occurring anxiety disorders and musculoskeletal conditions were associated with poorer physical health–related quality of life and activity limitations than musculoskeletal conditions alone. Conclusion: Anxiety disorders and physical health problems co-occur at high rates among Canadian Veterans, and this comorbidity is linked to poorer physical health–related quality of life and activity limitations. These findings have implications for supporting at-risk personnel with the transition to civilian life and for informing health promotion and prevention efforts.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".