A Longitudinal Study of Demographic Factors Associated With Stressors and Symptoms in African Refugees

• Published in: American journal of orthopsychiatry Vol. 83; no. 4; pp. 472 - 482
• Main Authors: Perera, Sulani, Gavian, Margaret, Frazier, Patricia, Johnson, David, Spring, Marline, Westermeyer, Joseph, Butcher, James, Halcon, Linda, Robertson, Cheryl, Savik, Kay, Jaranson, James
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, MA Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.10.2013; Wiley; American Psychological Association; Educational Publishing Foundation
• Subjects: acculturative stress; Adaptation, Psychological; Adolescent; Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Africa; African Cultural Groups; Aged; Anxiety disorders. Neuroses; asylum seekers; Biological and medical sciences; Black or African American; Black People - ethnology; Black People - psychology; Demographic Characteristics; Demographics; Emigration and Immigration; Ethnicity; Exposure; Female; Females; gender‐based violence; Human; Human Migration; Humans; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Males; Medical sciences; Mental health; Mental stress; Middle Aged; Oromo; Post traumatic stress disorder; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; premigration stress; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Qualitative analysis; Quantitative Methods; Refugees; Refugees - psychology; Regression analysis; resettlement stress; Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry; Sociodemographic Factors; Somalia; Stress; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - diagnosis; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - ethnology; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - psychology; Stress, Psychological - diagnosis; Stress, Psychological - ethnology; Stress, Psychological - psychology; Symptoms; torture; transit stress; U.S.A; United States; Victimology; war violence; Warfare; witnessed violence; Somali Republic; Africa; United States; Somalia; transit stress; witnessed violence; Oromo; refugees; premigration stress; Somalia; gender-based violence; posttraumatic stress disorder; resettlement stress; war violence; torture; asylum seekers; acculturative stress; Social environment; Anxiety disorder; Mental health; War; Refugee; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Acculturation; Intimate partner violence; Torture; Public health; Human; Stress; African; Symptomatology; Follow up study; Sociodemographic factor; Asylum seeker

The objectives of this study were to assess differences in premigration, transit, and resettlement stressor exposure and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms as a function of demographic characteristics (i.e., gender, ethnicity, age, time in United States) and to examine the concurrent and...