Posttraumatic idioms of distress among Darfur refugees: HozuN and Majnun

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 392-415

  Rasmussen, Andrew ^a   Katoni, Basila ^b   Keller, Allen S ^a   Wilkinson, John ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Feed the Children   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Darfur; idioms of distress; posttraumatic stress disorder; refugees; war

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHAD; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; DEPRESSION; ETHNOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REFUGEE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHAD; CULTURE; DEPRESSION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REFUGEES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUDAN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052770874     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: 14617471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461511409283     Document Type: Article

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