The mental health of internally displaced persons: An epidemiological study of adults in two settlements in Central Sudan

International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 782-788

  Salah, Tarig Taha Mohamed ^a   Abdelrahman, Abdallah ^b   Lien, Lars ^a   Eide, Arne Henning ^c   Martinez, Priscilla ^d   Hauff, Edvard ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^c SINTEF   (Norway)

^d OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Internally displaced persons; mental disorders; rural; Sudan; urban

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PHOBIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFUGEE; RURAL; STATISTICS; SUDAN; URBAN; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS; MENTAL DISORDERS; RURAL; SUDAN; URBAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFUGEES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUDAN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888603712     PISSN: 00207640     EISSN: 17412854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020764012456810     Document Type: Article

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