Psychological distress and the asylum process: A longitudinal study of forced migrants in Ireland

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 37-45

  Ryan, Dermot A ^a   Benson, Ciarán A ^a   Dooley, Barbara A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Asylum seekers; Legal status insecurity; Postmigration stress; Psychological distress; Refugees

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; BRIEF SYMPTOM INVENTORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IRELAND; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; IRELAND; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PREJUDICE; PUBLIC POLICY; REFUGEES; RISK FACTORS; ROMANIA; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WELFARE; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 38349008815     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31815fa51c     Document Type: Article

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