Open AccessPsychiatric morbidity in adult Kashmiri migrants living in a migrant camp at Jammu
Author(s) -
Rakesh Banal,
Jagdish Thappa,
HU Shah,
Arshid Hussain,
Abhishek Chowhan,
Harneet Kaur,
Mala Bharti,
Sushant Thappa
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.64597
Subject(s) - kashmiri , refugee , anxiety , psychiatry , medicine , population , psychopathology , depression (economics) , demography , psychology , clinical psychology , geography , environmental health , sociology , archaeology , economics , macroeconomics
There are 14.9 million refugees and 22 million internally displaced persons in the world. The clinical and research literature shows a significant degree of psychological stress among refugees with relatively high levels of physical and psychological dysfunction in them.