The Health of Former Prisoners of War Results from the Medical Examination Survey of Former POWs of World War II and the Korean Conflict (1992) / Chapter Skim
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3 Final Status of Data Collection
3 Final Status of Data Collection
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The latest completed follow-up in 1984-1985 included all POW groups but only the WK controls. Because WW II controls had not been traced since 1965, their current addresses were more difficult to obtain, and in consequence their invitation rates were lower.
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Such a disparity raises the obvious issue of potential nonresponse bias, which is addressed later in this chapter. However, if subjects who died were eliminated as ineligible from the control groups—a reasonable action because deceased controls, unlike deceased POW volunteers, could not possibly have provided any examination information this marginally raises the proportion of completed examinations to 11.3% for WE, 16.
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Among WW II POWs, there were appreciably higher proportions of men with service in the Army Air Corps—servicemen who were captured when their planes were shot down were held as POWs; among the PWP and PWK groups, respondents had notably higher levels of education. In the WE group, compared with other controls, there was a higher proportion of examined men who were single at the time of entry into service or who were inductees.
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There are some differences particularly in the Pacific theater WW II groupsbut interestingly the direction of these differences is not uniform across all study groups. Subjects with completed examinations had higher VA hospitalization rates in the PWE, PWEM, WP, and WK groups; subjects with completed exams in the WE, POOP, and PWK groups had lower VA hospitalization rates.
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1975. Follow-up studies of World War II and Korean war prisoners.
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