Course and predictors of mental health of unaccompanied refugee minors in the Netherlands: One year follow-up

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1204-1215

  Bean, Tammy M ^a   Eurelings Bontekoe, Elisabeth ^b   Spinhoven, Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Epidemiology; Follow up study; Mental health; Multiple informants; Refugee; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; MENTAL HEALTH; REFUGEE; YOUNG POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUSTODY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; JUVENILE; LIFE EVENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; NETHERLANDS; POPULATION MODEL; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; REFUGEE; SAMPLE SIZE; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; TEACHER;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOSTER HOME CARE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MINORS; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFUGEES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF DISCLOSURE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33847152569     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.11.010     Document Type: Article

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