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Vol.2, No.4, 332-341 (2010) Health doi:10.4236/health.2010.24050 Social support and coping as moderators of perceived disability and posttraumatic stress levels among Vietnam theater veterans Erin Martz*, Todd Bodner, Hanoch Livneh Portland State University, Portland, USA; martzerin@ Received 3 December 2009; revised 11 January 2010; accepted 15 January 2010. ABSTRACT that examined coping with a war-related disability. To date, research has not yet examined the possible moder- The dual purpose of this study is to investigate ating effect of coping or social support on disability and whether disability predicts posttraumatic stress PTSD levels. levels among Vietnam theater veterans, and The need to conduct such research has been stated by whether coping and/or social support moder- Kulka and colleagues, who concluded that “Vietnam ates the impact of disability on PTSD levels, theater veterans with service-connected physical dis- after controlling for demographic, pre-military, abilities are at elevated risk for a variety of readjustment military, and post-military factors. This research problems” [1], and more recently, by a 2006 working analyzed data from the U.S.’s National Vietnam group on deployment-related adjustment and mental Veterans Readjustment Study (NVVRS), which disorders [10]. The dual purpose of this study is to in- was a nationally representative, stratified, ran-