Cross-cultural response to trauma: A study of traumatic experiences and posttraumatic symptoms in cambodian refugees
✍ Scribed by Eve Bernstein Carlson; Rhonda Rosser-Hogan
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 888 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-9867
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✦ Synopsis
Despite a growing literature of cross-cultural research on mental illness, little is known about the universality of most psychiatric disorders. This study was designed to determine whether people from a vey different culture have the same symptoms in response to traumatic experiences as do trauma survivors in the United States. We were also interested to find out if the severity of the current symptoms is related to the amount of trauma experienced. Furthermore, we gathered information about the perceived severity of traumatic erperiences among refugees. Fifiy Cambodian refusees living in the U.S. were asked about their traumatic erperiences and their current symptoms of posttraumatic stress, dissociation, depression, and anxiety. High levels of all symptoms were found along with statistically significant relationships between each symptom measure and the amount of trauma experienced. We conclude that the basic symptom picture in this qoup was similar to that observed in US. trauma survivors.