ContextRefugees experience multiple traumatic events and have significant associated
health problems, but data about refugee trauma and health status are often conflicting and …

Studies have shown that a high proportion of refugees have been subjected to potentially
traumatic experiences (PTEs). PTEs, including torture, are powerful predictors of mental ill …

Refugees who settle in Western countries exhibit a high rate of mental health issues, which
are often related to experiences throughout the pre-displacement, displacement, and post …

This article documents frequencies of torture, war trauma, and associations with mental
health distress reported by Karen refugees during their initial public health screening in the …

The purpose of this integrative review was to assess the results of current published
quantitative research about refugees and their mental health status. An extensive literature …

Background: Questionnaires are widely used to assess the mental health status of refugees,
whereas their construct validity largely remains unexplored. Objective: This study examined …

Abstract Background The Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (HTQ) was developed 25 years
ago as a cross-cultural screening instrument to document trauma exposure, head trauma …

1. Introduction The treatment of traumatized refugees remains a challenge. It has been
estimated that 30% of traumatized refugees suffer from PTSD (1). Therefore, identifying …

War-related traumas impact refugees' mental health. Recent literature suggests that
structural and sociocultural factors related to the resettlement also become critical in shaping …

Despite the central role of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in international humanitarian
aid work, there has been little examination of the measurement invariance of PTSD …