Connectedness, social support and internalising emotional and behavioural problems in adolescents displaced by the Chechen conflict

Disasters

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 635-655

  Betancourt, Theresa S ^a,b   Salhi, Carmel ^b   Buka, Stephen ^c   Leaning, Jennifer ^a,b   Dunn, Gillian ^d,e   Earls, Felton ^f  

^a Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e International Rescue Committee's Russian Federation Country Office   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Chechnya; Internalising; Mental health; Observational study; War

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLITICAL CONFLICT; PSYCHOLOGY; WAR; YOUNG POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUGEE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WAR;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; REFUGEES; RUSSIA; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WAR;

CHECHNYA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84865863318     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: 14677717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2012.01280.x     Document Type: Article

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