Returning home: Forced conscription, reintegration, and mental health status of former abductees of the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Pham, Phuong N ^a,b   Vinck, Patrick ^a,b   Stover, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY REINTEGRATION; CRIME; DEPRESSION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HOME; HUMAN; KIDNAPPING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; UGANDA; VIOLENCE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH STATUS; LIFE EVENT; PREVALENCE; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFUGEE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOLDIER; STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CHILD; COMBAT DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PREVALENCE; PRISONERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFUGEES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UGANDA; VIOLENCE; WAR CRIMES;

EID: 67649697699     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-9-23     Document Type: Article

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