What is it about?
Migrants who lost a loved one or their home due to a firework disaster have more serious and long-term stress-related complaints than non-migrants.
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Why is it important?
These findings underline the importance of cultural exploration of grief.
Perspectives
Efforts to prevent stress-related psychopathology following mass trauma should specifically target ethnic minority groups. Importantly, this includes refugees and asylum seekers, who often experienced multiple losses of loved ones as well as their homes.
Prof. Geert E. Smid
University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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This page is a summary of: Loss of loved ones or home due to a disaster: Effects over time on distress in immigrant ethnic minorities, Transcultural Psychiatry, July 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1363461518784355.
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