VA WILL STUDY STRESS OF WOMEN IN COMBAT

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, January 11, 1993                   TAG: 9301110028
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO  
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: BOSTON                                LENGTH: Short
VA WILL STUDY STRESS OF WOMEN IN COMBAT
The U.S. Veterans Administration plans to study combat stress in women, including the problems caused by sexual harassment and sexual assault, an official says.
The agency is opening a special facility to study women at the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Boston, said Dr. Jessica Wolfe, director of the new center. The research project will be the first coordinated, large-scale effort to examine the stressful effects of war on women, she said.
"On an informal grass-roots basis, some VA medical centers have been doing a reasonably good job of treating women who knew to come to them," Wolfe said. "But there have been no formal programs for women. There have been no formal [standards for] evaluation of their symptoms."

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB