A 7-Year Follow-Up Study on the Mental Health of North Korean Defectors in South Korea

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 158-164

  Jeon, Woo Taek ^a   Eom, Jin Sup ^b   Min, Sung Kil ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Chungbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NORTH KOREA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUGEE; RISK FACTOR; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFUGEES; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874018196     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.21783     Document Type: Article

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