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Mental Disorders, Disability and Treatment Gap in a Protracted Refugee Setting
Country: Lebanon
Classification: Mental Illness
Year of Publication: 2014
Study Type:
Quantitative Study
Sample Size:
194
The Research party:
1. PhD, Epicentre, Paris, France;
Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva Switzerland
2. Department and Institute of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine
University of São Paulo, Brazil; 3.The study was funded by Médecins Sans Frontières.
Main Idea or Research Questions:
This paper estimates the prevalence of mental disorders, related disability and treatment gap in adult refugees living in the Burj el-Barajneh camp.