TY - JOUR
T1 - The Psychiatric Effects of Massive Trauma on Cambodian Children
T2 - I. The Children
AU - KINZIE, J. DAVID
AU - SACK, WILLIAM H.
AU - ANGELL, RICHARD H.
AU - MANSON, SPERO
AU - RATH, BEN
PY - 1986
Y1 - 1986
N2 - This report, which uses standardized interviews by psychiatrists, describes the psychiatric effects on 40 Cambodian high school students in the United States who suffered massive trauma from 1975 to 1979. They endured separation from family, forced labor and starvation, and witnessed many deaths because of the Pol Pot regime. After 2 years of living in refugee camps, they immigrated to the United States at about age 14. Four years after leaving Cambodia, 20 (50%) developed posttraumatic stress disorder; mild, but prolonged depressive symptoms were also common. Psychiatric effects were more common and more severe when the students did not reside with a family member.
AB - This report, which uses standardized interviews by psychiatrists, describes the psychiatric effects on 40 Cambodian high school students in the United States who suffered massive trauma from 1975 to 1979. They endured separation from family, forced labor and starvation, and witnessed many deaths because of the Pol Pot regime. After 2 years of living in refugee camps, they immigrated to the United States at about age 14. Four years after leaving Cambodia, 20 (50%) developed posttraumatic stress disorder; mild, but prolonged depressive symptoms were also common. Psychiatric effects were more common and more severe when the students did not reside with a family member.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60259-4
DO - 10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60259-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0022523170
SN - 0002-7138
VL - 25
SP - 370
EP - 376
JO - Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry
JF - Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry
IS - 3
ER -