tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: " Returning home: forced conscription, reintegration, and mental health status of former abductees of the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Returning home: forced conscription, reintegration, and mental health status of former abductees of the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda | BMC Psychiatry BioMed Central Open Access Returning home forced conscription reintegration and mental health status of former abductees of the Lord s Resistance Army in northern Uganda Phuong N Pham 1 2 Patrick Vinckt1 2 and Eric Stover3 Address 1Human Rights Center University of California Berkeley Berkeley CA USA 2Payson Center for International Development Tulane University New Orleans LA USA and 3Human Rights Center School of Public Health and School of Law University of California Berkeley Berkeley CA USA Email Phuong N Pham - ppham1@ Patrick Vinck - pvinck@ Eric Stover - stovere@ Corresponding author fEqual contributors Published 16 May 2009 Received 26 November 2008 BMC Psychiatry 2009 9 23 doi l47l-244X-9-23 Accepted 16 May 2009 This article is available from http l47l-244X 9 23 2009 Pham et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Since the late 1980s the Lord s Resistance Army LRA a spiritualist rebel group in northern Uganda has killed and mutilated thousands of civilians and abducted an estimated 52 000 to 75 000 people to serve as soldiers porters and sex slaves for its commanders. This study examines the types of violence to which former abductees have been exposed and the extent to which these acts have affected their psychological well-being. Methods This is a cross-sectional study of 2 875 individuals selected through a multi-stage stratified cluster sampling design conducted in 8 districts of northern Uganda. Multivariate logistic regressions were performed with symptoms for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD and depression as the main outcome measures. Results One-third of the respondents 33 self-reported .