Somali and Oromo Refugees: Correlates of Torture and Trauma History

James M. Jaranson · James Neal Butcher · Linda L. Halcón · Cheryl Lee Robertson · Kay Savik · Marline Spring +1 more

263 citations0/0 files storedAmerican Journal of Public Health

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Migration, Health and Trauma Child Abuse and Trauma Torture, Ethics, and Law

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: This cross-sectional, community-based, epidemiological study characterized Somali and Ethiopian (Oromo) refugees in Minnesota to determine torture prevalence and associated problems. METHODS: A comprehensive questionnaire was developed, then administered by trained ethnic interviewers to a nonprobability sample of 1134. Measures assessed torture techniques; traumatic events; and social, physical, and psychological problems, including posttraumatic stress symptoms. RESULTS: Torture prevalence ranged from 25% to 69% by ethnicity and gender, higher than usually reported. Unexpectedly, women were tortured as often as men. Torture survivors had more health problems, including posttraumatic stress. CONCLUSIONS: This study highlights the need to recognize torture in African refugees, especially women, identify indicators of posttraumatic stress in torture survivors, and provide additional resources to care for tortured refugees.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 263 citations exist upstream.

References

1970Back-Translation for Cross-Cultural Research 1996Psychometric properties of the PTSD checklist (PCL)1959The Silent Language 1988The Composite International Diagnostic Interview 1990SCAN 2001Lifetime Events and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in 4 Postconflict Settings 2002Measuring trauma and health status in refugees: a critical review.1987The psychosocial impact of war trauma and torture on Southeast Asian refugees

Cited by

2010The Relationship of Trauma to Mental Disorders Among Trafficked and Sexually Exploited Girls and Women 2008Multicultural Meanings of Social Support among Immigrants and Refugees 2010Mental Disorders Following War in the Balkans 2012Multi-tier mental health program for refugee youth.2004Trauma and coping in Somali and Oromo refugee youth 2012‘I'm Telling You … The Language Barrier is the Most, the Biggest Challenge’: Barriers to Education among Karen Refugee Women in Australia

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.