Mental Disorders and Their Association With Disability Among Internally Displaced Persons and Returnees in Georgia

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 509-518

  Makhashvili, Nino ^a,b   Chikovani, Ivdity ^c   Mckee, Martin ^d   Bisson, Jonathan ^e   Patel, Vikram ^d   Roberts, Bayard ^d  

^a Global Initiative on Psychiatry Tbilisi   (United States)

^b ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Georgia)

^c CURATIO INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION   (Georgia)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e CARDIFF AND VALE UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANXIETY; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; FEMALE; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFUGEE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANXIETY; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REFUGEES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84911941301     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.21949     Document Type: Article

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