PTSD as a consequence of past conflict experience, recent exposure to violence and economic marginalization in post-conflict contexts: A study from Nepal, Guatemala and Northern Ireland.

CONCLUSIONS: The results support the study hypothesis that both past and recent negative events in combination with economic marginalization contribute to explain current risk of PTSD. It is necessary both to improve living conditions more broadly and to establish and develop health services that have the capacity to screen, prevent and treat mental health problems also in poor contexts, in particular against a background of previous armed conflict.
PMID: 31264516 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The International Journal of Social Psychiatry - July 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Eide AH, Dyrstad K Tags: Int J Soc Psychiatry Source Type: research