Associations of conflict-related trauma and ongoing stressors with the mental health and functioning of West Papuan refugees in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (PNG)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Tay, Alvin Kuowei ^a,b   Rees, Susan ^a   Chen, Jack ^a,b   Kareth, Moses ^a   Lahe, Sylvester ^c   Kitau, Russell ^c   David, Kura ^c   Sonoling, Joyce ^c   Silove, Derrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ILLICIT DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CITIZENSHIP; COMORBIDITY; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT EXPLOSIVE DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MENTAL FUNCTION ASSESSMENT; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PANIC; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PAPUAN PEOPLE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REFUGEE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOMATIZATION; SUBSTANCE USE; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YOUNG ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; AUSTRALIA; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; AUSTRALIA; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; REFUGEES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84928811557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125178     Document Type: Article

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