Pre-Migration Trauma and HIV-Risk Behavior

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 91-108

  Steel, Jennifer ^a   Herlitz, Claes ^b   Matthews, Jesse ^c   Snyder, Wendy ^c   Mazzaferro, Kathryn ^c   Baum, Andy ^c   Theorell, Töres ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Dalarnas forskningsrad   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

HIV risk behavior; immigrants; post traumatic growth; refugees; trauma

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; POPULATION MIGRATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; PSYCHOTRAUMA; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFUGEE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SWEDEN;

ADULT; DEMOGRAPHY; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; RISK-TAKING; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0038707392     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: 14617471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461503040001006     Document Type: Article

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