Citation

Hjern A, Angel B, Jeppson O. Scand. J. Soc. Med. 1998; 26(1): 18-25.

Affiliation

Department of Pediatrics, Huddinge University Hospital, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, Scandinavian University Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9526760

Abstract

The mental health of 63 refugee children, with a mean age of 5.9 years, from Chile and the Middle East, were studied during the first 18 months of exile in Stockholm, Sweden. 46% of the children were rated as having poor mental health five months after resettlement in symptom interviews with parents based on the structured questionnaire developed by Cederblad, and 44% thirteen months later. Political violence in the home country and stress in the family sphere in exile were identified as the major determinants of poor mental health in this context.

Language: en