Mental health status in refugees: An integrative review of current research

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 397-410

  Keyes, Emily F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUGEE; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; REFUGEES;

EID: 0034208720     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/016128400248013     Document Type: Review

References (31)

1. Allodi, F. A. (1991). Assessment and treatment of torture victims: A critical review. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders, 179, 1004-1011.
2. American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
3. Bauer, M., & Priebe, S. (1994). Psychopathology and long-term adjustment after crises in refugees from East Germany. The International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 40(3), 165-176.
4. Beiser, M., & Hyman, I. (1997). Refugees' time perspective and mental health. American Journal of Psychiatry, 154(7), 996-1002.
5. Boyd, M. A., & Nihart, M. A. (1998). Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice. Philadelphia: Lippincott.
6. Buchwald, D., Manson, S., Dinges, N., Keane, E., & Kinzie, J. D. (1993). Prevalence of depressive symptoms among established Vietnamese refugees in the United States. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 8, 76-81.
7. Carlson, E. B., & Rosser-Hogan, R. (1991). Trauma experiences, posttraumatic stress, dissociation, and depression in Cambodian refugees. American Journal of Psychiatry, 148(11), 1548-1551.
8. Cheung, P. (1994). Posttraumatic stress disorder among Cambodian refugees in New Zealand. The International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 40(1), 17-26.
9. Clinton-Davis, & Fassil, Y. (1992). Health and social problems of refugees. Social Science Medicine, 35(4), 507-513.
10. Cooper, H. M. (1982). Scientific guidelines for conducting integrative research reviews. Review Educational Research, 52(2), 291-302.
11. Corcoran, K., & Fischer, J. (1987). Measures for clinical practice: A sourcebook. New York: Macmillan.
12. Cunningham, M., & Cunningham, J. (1997). Patterns of symptomatology and patterns of torture and trauma experiences in resettled refugees. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 31, 555-565.
13. Ebata, K., & Miyake, Y. (1989). A mental health survey of the Vietnamese refugee in Japan. The International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 35(2), 164-172.
14. Eisenbruch, M. (1991). From posttraumatic stress disorder to cultural bereavement: Diagnosis of Southeast Asian refugees. Social Science Medicine, 33(6), 673-680.
15. Eitinger, L. (1980). The concentration camp syndrome and its late sequelae. In J. E. Dimsdale (Ed.), Survivors, victims, and perpetrators. Essays on the Nazi holocaust. (pp. 127-162). Washington, DC: Hemisphere Publishing.
16. Ekblad, S., & Roth, G. (1997). Diagnosing posttraumatic stress disorder in multicultural patients in a Stockholm psychiatric clinic. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 185(2), 102-107.
17. Fagen, P. W. (1990). World wide refugees: Problems of disruption, fear, and poverty. In W. H. Holtzman & T. H. Bornemann (Eds.), Mental health of immigrants and refugees: Proceedings of a conference sponsored by Hogg Foundation for Mental Health and World Federation for Mental Health (pp. 7-15). Austin, Texas: Hogg Foundation for Mental Health.
18. Ganong, L. (1987). Integrative reviews of nursing research. Research in Nursing and Health, 10, 1-11.
19. Gorst-Unsworth, C., & Goldenberg, E. (1998). Psychological sequelae of torture and organized violence suffered by refugees from Iraq. British Journal of Psychiatry, 172, 90-94.
20. Hauff, E., & Vaglum, P. (1995). Organised violence and the stress of exile: Predictors of mental health in a community cohort of Vietnamese refugees three years after resettlement. British Journal of Psychiatry, 166, 360-367.
21. Kinzie, J. D., Boehnlein, J. K., Leung, P., Moore, L., Riley, C., & Smith, D. (1990). The prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder and its clinical significance among Southeast Asian refugees. American Journal of Psychiatry, 147(7), 913-917.
22. Krupnick, J. L., & Horowitz, M. J. (1981). Stress response syndromes: Recurrent themes. Archives of General Psychiatry, 38, 428-435.
23. Lavik, N. J., Hauff, E., Skrondal, A., & Solberg, Ø. S. (1996). Mental disorder among refugees and the impact of persecution and exile: Some findings from an out-patient population. British Journal of Psychiatry, 169, 726-732.
24. Meleis, A. (1996). Culturally competent scholarship: Substance and rigor. Advances in Nursing Science, 19(2), 1-16.
25. Mollica, R. F., Poole, C., Son, L., Murray, C., & Tor, S. (1997). Effects of war trauma on Cambodian refugee adolescents' functional health and mental health status. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 36(8), 1098-1106.
26. Mollica, R. F., Wyshak, G., & Lavelle, J. (1987). The psychosocial impact of war trauma and torture on Southeast Asian refugees. American Journal of Psychiatry, 144, 1567-1572.
27. Pernice, R., & Brook, J. (1996). The mental health patterns of migrants: Is there a euphoric period followed by a mental health crisis? International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 42(1), 18-27.
28. Schreiber, S. (1995). Migration, traumatic bereavement, and transcultural aspects of psychological healing: Loss and grief of a refugee woman from Begameder County in Ethiopia. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 68, 135-142.
29. Silove, D., Steel, Z., McGorry, P., & Mohan, P. (1998). Trauma exposure, postmigration stressors, and symptoms of anxiety, depression and posttraumatic stress in Tamil asylum-seekers: Comparison with refugees and immigrants. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 97, 175-181.
30. Stein, B. N. (1986). The experience of being a refugee: Insights from the research literature. In C. L. Williams & J. Westermeyer (Eds.), Refugee mental health in resettlement countries (pp. 5-23). Washington, DC: Hemisphere.
31. Weine, S. M., Vojvoda, D., Becker, D., McGlashan, T., Hodzic, E., Laub, D., Hyman, L., Sawyer, M., & Lazrove, S. (1998). PTSD symptoms in Bosnian refugees 1 year after resettlement in the United States. American Journal of Psychiatry, 155(4), 562-564.