Abstract
Addressing the gaps in mental health care for internally displaced persons.
Highlights
Exposure to traumatic events such as forced migration contributes to sustained deleterious effects on individual mental health
We conducted the first study of the mental health impact on a group of women displaced by the 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots, a series of ethnoreligious violent attacks within India, and found a majority screened positive for either depression or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due to the trauma sustained, yet had received limited, if any, mental health care since the riots
Combining data from geographic information systems (GIS) with the WHO Mental Health Atlas, we mapped the fatalities from ongoing ethnic conflict against the availability of mental health providers (Figure 1)
Summary
Exposure to traumatic events such as forced migration contributes to sustained deleterious effects on individual mental health. We conducted the first study of the mental health impact on a group of women displaced by the 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots, a series of ethnoreligious violent attacks within India, and found a majority screened positive for either depression or PTSD due to the trauma sustained, yet had received limited, if any, mental health care since the riots.
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