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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
Volume 7, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/jcm7020025
Keywords
refugee; trauma; stress; measurement; path models; mental health; post-migration stress
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- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) [R01 MH59574]
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Information about the relative impact of stressful events across the lifespan on the mental health of refugees is needed. Cross-sectional data from a community sample of 135 Kurdish and 117 Vietnamese refugees were fit to a path model about the effects of non-war stress, war-related stress, and post-migration stress on mental health. Kurdish and Vietnamese data were generally consistent with the model. However, war-related stress produced no direct but a large indirect effect through post-migration stress on mental health in Kurds. Vietnamese data indicated a modest direct war-related stress effect but no indirect influence through post-migration stress. Different types of stressful events lead to adverse mental health of displaced refugees in a somewhat group-dependent manner. Implications for prevention and treatment are discussed.
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