Effects of recurrent violence on post-traumatic stress disorder and severe distress in conflict-affected Timor-Leste: a 6-year longitudinal study

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Australian National Health and Medical Research Council.

Symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder in a clinical sample of refugees: a network analysis

“…Second, a larger sample would also allow for the investigation of co-morbidity. As the co-occurrence of PTSD and depression is common in severely traumatized refugees (Silove et al, 2014), exploring the associations between PTSD and depression symptoms with network analysis may improve our understanding of the co-occurrence and interactions of these two disorders. Third, network structure and centrality measures in different sub-samples, i.e.…”

“…Currently, the number of refugees is the highest since WWII (UNHCR, 2016). Refugees are commonly exposed to a large number of potentially traumatic events, which is associated with an increased risk for mental health disorders such as PTSD and depression (Mollica et al, 1998; Silove et al, 2014). In addition, in refugees it is common that several years have passed since the onset of PTSD symptoms and the initiation of therapy (Schick et al, 2016), with PTSD persisting during this period.…”

Factorial structure of complicated grief: associations with loss-related traumatic events and psychosocial impacts of mass conflict amongst West Papuan refugees

“…There is substantial evidence in the general refugee literature supporting the impact on adverse mental health outcomes of key domains of the ADAPT model, including exposure to conflict-related TEs (associated with pillar 1 of the ADAPT model), traumatic loss (pillar 2), and feelings of injustice (pillar 3) [18,19]. In studies in Timor-Leste, a neighbouring country to West Papua with a comparable history of persecution under Indonesian rule, traumatic loss arising from witnessing murder of families or kin, and related aspects of injustice, were associated with a range of adverse mental health outcomes [19][20][21].…”

“…In studies in Timor-Leste, a neighbouring country to West Papua with a comparable history of persecution under Indonesian rule, traumatic loss arising from witnessing murder of families or kin, and related aspects of injustice, were associated with a range of adverse mental health outcomes [19][20][21]. As yet, however, no study has examined for a specific relationship of these three ADAPT domains (or those associated with the sense of identity and existential meaning) with complicated grief [22].…”

Mental Health among displaced Syrians: findings from the Syria Public Health Network

“…First, research efforts should focus on strengthening routine mental health programme monitoring and evaluation, rather than resourceintensive, primary epidemiological work on prevalence of mental disorder -especially given the volume of primary evidence now available from other conflict settings. 10,11 Second, implementation research focused on testing interventions should be prioritised. Policymakers and donors need to know what works, why and for whom -questions to which answers are currently lacking in the health response more broadly.…”