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Relationships of Childhood Adverse Experiences with Mental Health and Quality of Life at Treatment Start for Adult Refugees Traumatized by Pre-Flight Experiences of War and Human Rights Violations

Opaas, Marianne; Varvin, Sverre
Journal article, Peer reviewed
Copyright © 2015 wolters kluwer health, inc. all rights reserved. this is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the creative commons attribution- non commercial- no derivatives license 4.0 ( c c b y- n c- n d), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. the work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10642/3151
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2015-09
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Opaas, M., & Varvin, S. (2015). Relationships of childhood adverse experiences with mental health and quality of life at treatment start for adult refugees traumatized by pre-flight experiences of war and human rights violations. The Journal of nervous and mental disease, 203(9), 684.   http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0000000000000330
Abstract
Adverse and potentially traumatic experiences (PTEs) in childhood

were examined among 54 adult refugee patients with pre-flight PTEs of war

and human rights violations (HRVs) and related to mental health and quality of

life at treatment start. Extent of childhood PTEs was more strongly related to

mental health and quality of life than the extent of war and HRV experiences.

Childhood PTEs were significantly related to arousal and avoidance symptoms

of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and to quality of life, whereas pre-

flight war and HRV experiences were significantly related to reexperiencing

symptoms of PTSD only. Within childhood adversities, experiences of family vi-

olence and external violence, but not of loss and illness, were significantly related

to increased mental health symptoms and reduced quality of life. These results

point to the importance of taking childhood adverse experiences into account

in research and treatment planning for adult refugees with war and HRVs trauma.
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Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins

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