Mental health of recently resettled refugees from the Middle East in Sweden: The impact of pre-resettlement trauma, resettlement stress and capacity to handle stress

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 121-131

  Lindencrona, Fredrik ^a   Ekblad, Solvig ^a,b   Hauff, Edvard ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Capacity to handle stress; Common mental disorder; Post traumatic stress; Pre resettlement trauma; Refugees; Resettlement stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALIENATION; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE EAST; POPULATION MIGRATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REFUGEE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SWEDEN; TORTURE; VIOLENCE;

EID: 38649128800     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-007-0280-2     Document Type: Article

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