Posttraumatic idioms of distress among Darfur refugees: Hozun and Majnun

Although psychosocial programming is seen as essential to the humanitarian response to the Darfur conflict, aid groups lack culturally-appropriate assessment instruments for monitoring and evaluation. The current study used an emic-etic integrated approach to: (i) create a culturally-appropriate mea...

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Published in:	Transcultural psychiatry Vol. 48; no. 4; pp. 392 - 415
Main Authors:	Rasmussen, Andrew, Katoni, Basila, Keller, Allen S., Wilkinson, John
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London, England SAGE Publications 01.09.2011 Sage Publications
Subjects:	Adolescent Adult Adult and adolescent clinical studies Anxiety disorders. Neuroses Biological and medical sciences Chad Culture Depression - diagnosis Depression - ethnology Depression - psychology Factor Analysis, Statistical Female Humans Interview, Psychological Male Medical sciences Middle Aged Post-traumatic stress disorder Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychometrics. Diagnostic aid systems Psychopathology. Psychiatry Refugees - psychology Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - diagnosis Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - ethnology Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - etiology Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - psychology Stress, Psychological - diagnosis Stress, Psychological - ethnology Stress, Psychological - psychology Sudan - ethnology Techniques and methods Young Adult Chad Africa Sudan war idioms of distress Darfur refugees posttraumatic stress disorder Social environment Human Factor analysis Anxiety disorder Internal consistency Clinical form War Refugee Posttraumatic stress disorder Test reliability Test validation Construct validity Symptomatology Psychological distress Convergent validity Cultural environment Directive interview Refugee camp
ISSN:	1363-4615, 1461-7471, 1461-7471
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