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  • Title: [Health status and degree of traumatisation among newly arrived asylum seeker--secondary publication].
    Author: Masmas TN, Møller E, Buhmann C, Bunch V, Jensen JH, Hansen TN, Jørgensen LM, Kjaer C, Mannstaedt M, Oxholm A, Skau J, Theilade LA, Worm L, Ekstrøm M.
    Journal: Ugeskr Laeger; 2010 Jan 11; 172(2):120-4. PubMed ID: 20376916.
    Abstract:
    An unknown number of asylum seekers arriving in Denmark have been exposed to torture. Amnesty International's Danish Medical Group examined 142 asylum seekers, of whom 45% had been exposed to torture. Physical and psychological symptoms were 2-3 times as frequent among torture survivors as among non-tortured asylum seekers. Among the torture survivors, 63% fulfilled the criteria of post-traumatic stress disorder, 58% had objective psychological findings, and 42% had torture-related scars. Identification of torture survivors is important in order to initiate the necessary medical treatment.
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