Relationships between traumatic life events, symptoms and sense of coherence subscale meaningfulness in a group of refugee and immigrant patients refereed to a psychiatric outpatient clinic in Stockholm
Engelsk titel: Relationships between traumatic life events, symptoms and sense of coherence subscale meaningfulness in a group of refugee and immigrant patients refereed to a psychiatric outpatient clinic in Stockholm
Författare:
Ekblad, Solvig
;
Wennström, C.
Språk: Eng
Antal referenser: 20
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 58306
Sammanfattning
This pilot study had the aim to test the long version of the Sense of Coherence (SOC) questionnaire and its relationship to mental symptoms using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-II-R (SCID) and a battery of traumatic life event questionnaires, in a multicultural immigrant and refugee sample of 33 volunteer patients at a psychiatric outpatient clinic. The results of this study are consistent with previously reported cross-sectional data, i.e., that low SOC subscale meaningfulness is associated with mental distress and impaired functioning. However, these findings must be considered in light of methodological issues and the limitations of research in this area. Implications of these findings are presented, as are methodological issues that concern Antonovsky's measure.