A ten-year treatment outcome study of traumatized Cambodian refugees

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 192, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 658-663

  Boehnlein, James K ^a,b   Kinzie, J David ^a   Sekiya, Utako ^a   Riley, Crystal ^a   Pou, Kanya ^a   Rosborough, Bethany ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Veterans Administration Northwest Network   (United States)

Author keywords

Cambodian; Outcome; Refugees; Trauma

Indexed keywords

CAMBODIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; REFUGEE; RELAPSE; REMISSION; REVIEW; SOCIAL DISABILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORK DISABILITY;

ACCULTURATION; CAMBODIA; COMORBIDITY; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFUGEES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIALIZATION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIOLENCE;

EID: 5444232077     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000142033.79043.9d     Document Type: Review

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