The mental health status of Mayan refugees after repatriation to Guatemala La salud mental de refugiados mayas después de su repatriación a Guatemala

• Main Authors: Miriam Sabin, Keith Sabin, Hyoung Yong Kim, Marianela Vergara, Luis Varese
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2006
• Subjects: Refugiados; migración internacional; salud mental; trastornos por estrés postraumático; Guatemala; Refugees; emigration and immigration; mental health; stress disorders; post-traumatic; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Mayan
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/879f7b5167554a78a0f61c1185e2fb0f

OBJECTIVE: Only one previous study had examined the epidemiology of mental health in Guatemalan refugees. The objective of this new study was to estimate the prevalence of mental illness and to assess factors associated with poor mental health among Guatemalan Mayan refugees who had been repatriated...