Cambodian refugees gripped by severe depression in the US
AFP, August, 2005
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WASHINGTON (AFP) — Two decades after fleeing to the United States to escape widespread violence at home, Cambodian refugees are suffering from "shockingly high" depression, a study showed.
Nearly two-thirds of the adults studied in the largest Cambodian refugee community in the United States suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and more than half had major depression, according to the study by RAND Corporation, a non-profit research group.
The RAND Health study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, shows a surprisingly high rate of psychiatric illness among refugees traumatized during the reign of the notorious Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s in which as many as two million Cambodians were killed.
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The findings were based on research on a representative group of adult Cambodian refugees in Long Beach city, the home of more than 17,000 residents of Cambodian origin.
Although the study examined only ...
