A Transdiagnostic Community-Based Mental Health Treatment for Comorbid Disorders: Development and Outcomes of a Randomized Controlled Trial among Burmese Refugees in Thailand

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Bolton, Paul ^a   Lee, Catherine ^a   Haroz, Emily E ^a   Murray, Laura ^a   Dorsey, Shannon ^b   Robinson, Courtland ^a   Ugueto, Ana M ^a   Bass, Judith ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BURMESE; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INJURY; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REFUGEE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SUICIDE; THAILAND; TRANSDIAGNOSTIC TREATMENT; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; COMPLICATION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MYANMAR; PRISON; PROCEDURES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TORTURE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGGRESSION; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HUMANS; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MYANMAR; PRISONS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REFUGEES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; THAILAND; TORTURE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920384691     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001757     Document Type: Article

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