Traumatic events, migration characteristics and psychiatric symptoms among Somali refugees - Preliminary communication

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-43

  Bhui, Kamaldeep ^a   Abdi, Abdisalama ^a   Abdi, Mahad ^b   Pereira, Stephen ^c   Dualeh, Mohammed ^d   Robertson, David ^e   Sathyamoorthy, Ganesh ^e   Ismail, Hellena ^f  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Greenwich Networks ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d British Refugee Council   (United Kingdom)

^e SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^f Horn of Africa Community Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Migration; Psychiatric; Refugees; Somali; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEPRESSION; EMPLOYMENT; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; INCOME; INJURY; INTERVIEW; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; OCCUPATION; POPULATION MIGRATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOSIS; REFUGEE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOMALIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; WAR; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMOGRAPHY; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; REFUGEES; RISK FACTORS; SOMALIA; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0037258936     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-003-0596-5     Document Type: Article

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