Mental health problems and post-migration stress among multi-traumatized refugees attending outpatient clinics upon resettlement to Norway

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 316-332

  Teodorescu, Dinu Stefan ^a   Heir, Trond ^b   Hauff, Edvard ^c   Wentzel Larsen, Tore ^d,e   Lien, Lars ^a,c  

^a INNLANDET HOSPITAL TRUST   (Norway)

^b Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^e OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Comorbidities; Disorders of extreme stress not otherwise specified; Multi traumatic exposures; Post migration stressors; Post traumatic stress disorder; Refugee outpatients

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NORWAY; OUTPATIENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUGEE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; OUTPATIENTS; PREVALENCE; REFUGEES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 84863779162     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: 14679450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2012.00954.x     Document Type: Article

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