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Advanced Neurology TBI and depression by veteran status

Ethics approval and consent to participate national guard soldiers 3 and 12 months following combat
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This project was determined to be exempt from approval
by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of SUNY Upstate doi: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2010.54
Medical University. Ethical review and approval were 8. Lavoie S, Sechrist S, Quach N, et al. Depression in men and
waived for this study because it meets IRB exemption women one year following traumatic brain injury (TBI): A
category #4(i) – identifiable private information or TBI model systems study. Front Psychol. 2017;8:634.
identifiable biospecimens used in this study are publicly doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00634
available. Patient consent for this study was not required 9. Scholten AC, Haagsma JA, Cnossen MC, Olff M,
due to the approval of IRB exemption. There was no Van Beeck EF, Polinder S. Prevalence of and risk factors for
potential for harm to subjects in the database and the data anxiety and depressive disorders after traumatic brain injury:
were used without identifying information. A systematic review. J Neurotrauma. 2016;33(22):1969-1994.
Consent for publication doi: 10.1089/neu.2015.4252
Not applicable. 10. Qu Z, Wang Y, Guo D, et al. Identifying depression in the
United States veterans using deep learning algorithms,
Availability of data NHANES 2005-2018. BMC Psychiatry. 2023;23(1):620.
doi: 10.1186/s12888-023-05109-9
This study uses public data, which may be obtained through
the CDC and is publicly available at: https://www.cdc.gov/ 11. Zivin K, Kim HM, McCarthy JF, et al. Suicide mortality
nchs/nhis/documentation/2023-nhis.html among individuals receiving treatment for depression in the
Veterans Affairs health system: Associations with patient
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