Updated September 6, 2009 - The Global War on Terror (GWOT) PTSD diagnosis reports are official Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) documents summarizing how many Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans were diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by VA healthcare professionals at Veterans Health Administration (VHA) medical facilities, including VA “Vet Centers.”

GWOT is the official Department of Defense name for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.  The PTSD diagnosis reports are prepared by VHA for the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the oversight and investigative arm of Congress.  The GWOT PTSD diagnosis reports are prepared quarterly, and they are shown in chronological order starting with the newest report.  However, there appear to be gaps of missing GWOT PTSD diagnosis reports during the past five years.  The GWOT PTSD diagnosis reports are organized by month and year.  For example, “gwot_ptsd_12_08” is the date of the GWOT PTSD diagnosis report for December 2008.  Please note the date of the GWOT PTSD diagnosis statistics is often several months before the publishing date printed on the cover of a GWOT report. Also note the GWOT PTSD diagnosis reports show a higher number of PTSD diagnoses because they include veterans diagnosed at VA’s “Vet Centers.”  In contrast, VA’s GWOT healthcare use reports exclude veterans diagnosed at “Vet Centers.”

gwot_ptsd_12_08.pdf