1. Psychiatric disorders in East European refugees now in Australia
- Author
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Jerzy Krupinski, null Docent, Alan Stoller, and Lesley Wallace
- Subjects
Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Warfare ,Adolescent ,Ukrainian ,Refugee ,Culture ,Poison control ,Suicide prevention ,Occupational safety and health ,Medicine ,Humans ,Interpersonal Relations ,Europe, Eastern ,Occupations ,Psychiatry ,Combat Disorders ,Family Characteristics ,Refugees ,business.industry ,Mental Disorders ,Australia ,Human factors and ergonomics ,Mental health ,humanities ,language.human_language ,Eastern european ,Socioeconomic Factors ,Jews ,Prisons ,language ,Schizophrenia ,Educational Status ,Female ,War Crimes ,business ,Social Adjustment - Abstract
A sample of eastern European refugees who had arrived in Australia prior to 1955, and who were patients of any facility of the Victorian Mental Health Department during the period 1961–1968, were intensively interviewed to determine their war experiences, socio-cultural backgrounds, family settings, educational and work histories and adjustment problems in Australia. A control sample of non-patient refugees was interviewed along the same lines. Three groups of refugees, distinguished in terms of the severity of their war experiences (1. Jewish; 2. Polish, Russian and Ukrainian; and 3. all others) were compared with each other, and their psychiatric morbidity was related to their war experiences and other factors. Each of these groups responded differently to the hardships they had gone through.
- Published
- 1973