Factors associated with post-traumatic stress disorder and depression amongst internally displaced persons in northern Uganda

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Roberts, Bayard ^a   Ocaka, Kaducu Felix ^b   Browne, John ^a   Oyok, Thomas ^b   Sondorp, Egbert ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b GULU UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL HEALTH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION DISPERSION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PSYCHOTRAUMA; QUESTIONNAIRE; RAPE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL ABUSE; UGANDA; WAR; WATER DEPRIVATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; GRIEF; HEALTH SURVEY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUGEE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; COMBAT DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; GRIEF; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFUGEES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UGANDA; VIOLENCE; WAR;

EID: 44649100105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-8-38     Document Type: Article

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