Post-conflict mental health needs: A cross-sectional survey of trauma, depression and associated factors in Juba, Southern Sudan

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Roberts, Bayard ^a   Damundu, Eliaba Yona ^b   Lomoro, Olivia ^c   Sondorp, Egbert ^a  

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

^b Southern Sudan Commission for Census Statistics and Evaluation   (Sudan)

^c Ministry of Health   (Sudan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFLICT; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOTRAUMA; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFUGEE; RISK FACTOR; SUDAN; CIVIL DISORDER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; INJURY; MARRIAGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; CIVIL DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; REFUGEES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUDAN; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 63049104636     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-9-7     Document Type: Article

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