Identifying post-traumatic stress disorder in forced migrants
| Autor: | Tabitha Manzuangani, Clare Shortall, Katherine Russell, Cornelius Katona, Manpreet Bains |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Population Anger behavioral disciplines and activities Stress Disorders Post-Traumatic 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine mental disorders Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine education Psychiatry Depression (differential diagnoses) media_common Transients and Migrants education.field_of_study business.industry Traumatic stress General Medicine Armed Conflicts 030227 psychiatry Forced migration Feeling Anxiety medicine.symptom Headaches business |
| Zdroj: | BMJ. :k1608 |
| ISSN: | 1756-1833 0959-8138 |
| Popis: | What you need to know A 35 year old man, who was recently forced to migrate because of conflict, presents with headaches. Tension headache is diagnosed and review is arranged. On return he reports that the headaches are relieved by the analgesics he was prescribed, but his sleep is poor and he has frequent nightmares, from which he wakes feeling anxious and sweating. People who have had to undergo forced migration are more likely to have experienced the sort of trauma that would predispose them to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and are therefore at higher risk of PTSD than the general population in their new country of settlement.1 However, identifying PTSD is often difficult because vulnerable patients can be reluctant to discuss the details of these traumas without having already established trusting relationships with their doctors. ### Establish whether there are risk factors for PTSD If a forced migrant describes specific symptoms of PTSD or symptoms of depression, anxiety, anger, drug misuse, or alcohol misuse, ask sensitive questions about their experience and the events leading up to their forced migration to establish if there is … |
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