Mental health survey among landmine survivors in Siem Reap province, Cambodia

Barbara Lopes Cardozo International Emergency and Refugee Health Branch Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USACorrespondence[email protected]

Curtis Blanton International Emergency and Refugee Health Branch Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA

Tami Zalewski International Emergency and Refugee Health Branch Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA

Svang Tor Harvard Program for Refugee Trauma, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, USA

Laura McDonald Harvard Program for Refugee Trauma, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, USA

James Lavelle Harvard Program for Refugee Trauma, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, USA

Robert Brooks Centre for Population Mental Health Research, Psychiatry Research & Teaching Unit, The Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, Australia

Mark Anderson International Emergency and Refugee Health Branch Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA

Richard Mollica Harvard Program for Refugee Trauma, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, USA

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Abstract

Many survivors of the Khmer Rouge period in Cambodia and the subsequent war with Vietnam have now returned to Cambodia. In this two-stage household cluster survey in Siem Reap Province in Cambodia, we explored the mental health consequences on 166 landmine injury survivors selected from 1000 household in 50 clusters and an oversample of all landmine survivors. We found a prevalence of anxiety of 62% for all respondents, 74% for depression, and 34% for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). These prevalences were statistically significantly higher than among the adult population who had not been injured by landmines. These data underscore the importance of providing mental health care services for the people in Siem Reap Province in Cambodia who have been injured by landmines.

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