Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
Volume 182, Issue 7, 1994, Pages 387-395

The Khmer adolescent project I. Epidemiologic findings in two generations of Cambodian refugees (Article)

Sack W.H. , McSharry S. , Clarke G.N. , Kinney R. , Seeley J. , Lewinsohn P.
  • a Oregon Health Sciences University, United States
  • b University of Utah, United States
  • c Oregon Health Sciences University, United States
  • d University of Utah, United States
  • e Oregon Research Institute, United States
  • f Oregon Research Institute, United States

Abstract

Although the sample included both adolescents and young adults, for convenience we refer to the subjects as adolescents throughout the paper. A nonstratified random sample of 209 Khmer adolescents, ages 13 to 25, and a parent or guardian from two Western communities were interviewed to determine their diagnostic status following their survival of the Pol Pot War in Cambodia, from 1975 to 1979. Subjects were administered the posttraumatic stress disorder section of the Diagnostic Instrument for Children and Adolescents and selected sections of the Schedule of Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children-Epidemiologic Version, with the assistance of a Cambodian translator. Roughly one fifth of the adolescents, over one half of the mothers, and about one third of the fathers qualified for a current diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder. There was high comorbidity with depression, but other forms of psychopathology were much less evident. The clinical importance of distinguishing prior trauma from other forms of cultural loss and resettlement stress is discussed. © 1994 by Williams & Wilkins.

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depression Diagnosis, Differential Cambodia Adolescent Psychology human Refugees comorbidity war Stress, Psychological Depressive Disorder Fathers Mental Disorders United States family Adolescent male Acculturation female Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Mothers prevalence Article Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. major clinical study adult migration posttraumatic stress disorder Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
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DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199407000-00004
ISSN: 00223018
Cited by: 106
Original Language: English