Don't let the suffering make you fade away: An ethnographic study of resilience among survivors of genocide-rape in southern Rwanda

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1656-1664

  Zraly, Maggie ^a,b   Nyirazinyoye, Laetitia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA   (Rwanda)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genocide; Global mental health; Mental health promotion; Post conflict; Rape; Resilience; Rwanda; Women

Indexed keywords

GENOCIDE; MARGINALIZATION; MENTAL HEALTH; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO LIFE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; FEMALE; GENOCIDE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; RAPE; RWANDA; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVOR; WIDOW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PUBLIC OPINION; RAPE; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RWANDA; SURVIVORS; YOUNG ADULT;

RWANDA;

EID: 77951652833     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.01.017     Document Type: Article

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