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Post-traumatic stress disorder among Afghan refugees following war

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Khalid A. Mufti ,
Farooq Naeem ,
Haroon Rasheed Chaudry ,
Asad Haroon ,
Farida Saifi ,
Siama Mahmood Qureshi  and
Saif ur Rehman Dagarwal
Khalid A. Mufti
Affiliation:
Ibadat Hospital, EE 32 Nishterabad Peshawar, Pakistan, email kamufti2001@yahoo.com
Farooq Naeem
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Royal South Hants Hospital, Southampton SO14 3ED, UK
Haroon Rasheed Chaudry
Affiliation:
Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan
Asad Haroon
Affiliation:
Horizon, EE 32 Nishterabad Peshawar, Pakistan
Farida Saifi
Affiliation:
Horizon, EE 32 Nishterabad Peshawar, Pakistan
Siama Mahmood Qureshi
Affiliation:
Horizon, EE 32 Nishterabad Peshawar, Pakistan
Saif ur Rehman Dagarwal
Affiliation:
Village Daigam, Distt. Kama City Ningarhar, Afghanistan
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There was a large influx of Afghan refugees into Pakistan during the 1980s and in particular after the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. That refugees have high rates of mental health problems has been well established (e.g. De Jong et al, 2000) — causes include migration, often with painful transit experiences, difficult camp life and the experience of major trauma, including multiple losses of family members as well as the loss of property and traditional lifestyle. However, the Afghan refugees in Pakistan have been poorly studied. Although the mental health problems of Afghan refugees have been studied in the West, the numbers of participants in such research have been relatively small.

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Thematic Papers — The Mental Health of Refugees
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International Psychiatry , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 7 - 9
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