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The Danish Trauma Database for Refugees (DTD): A Multicenter Database Collaboration—Overcoming the Challenges and Enhancing Mental Health Treatment and Research for Refugees
Mental health of trauma-affected refugees is an understudied area, resulting in inadequate and poorer treatment outcomes. To address this, more high-quality treatment studies that include predictive analyses, long-term evaluations, cultural adaptations, and take account for comorbidities, are needed...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10454926/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37623194 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20166611 |
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author | Thøgersen, Marie Høgh Bager, Line Bangsgaard, Sofie Grimshave Palic, Sabina Auning-Hansen, Mikkel Møller, Stine Bjerrum Larsen, Kirstine Bruun Tækker, Louise Jensen, Bo Søndergaard Bothe, Søren Nordin, Linda |
author_facet | Thøgersen, Marie Høgh Bager, Line Bangsgaard, Sofie Grimshave Palic, Sabina Auning-Hansen, Mikkel Møller, Stine Bjerrum Larsen, Kirstine Bruun Tækker, Louise Jensen, Bo Søndergaard Bothe, Søren Nordin, Linda |
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description | Mental health of trauma-affected refugees is an understudied area, resulting in inadequate and poorer treatment outcomes. To address this, more high-quality treatment studies that include predictive analyses, long-term evaluations, cultural adaptations, and take account for comorbidities, are needed. Moreover, given the complex intertwining of refugees’ health with post-migration stressors and other social factors, it is crucial to examine the social determinants of refugee mental health. The Danish Trauma Database for Refugees (DTD) is a multicenter research database uniting six national centers that provide outpatient treatment for trauma-affected refugees. Through the database, we collect clinical and sociodemographic data from approximately 1200 refugees annually and will merge the database with Danish population register data. The purpose of the DTD is two-fold; clinical and research. The DTD offers data-driven guidance for routine clinical treatment planning of the individual patient, as well as exceptional research opportunities for testing treatment interventions in clinical settings, with larger sample sizes, and more representative heterogeneity of the population. Complex analyses of risk and protective factors, barriers, access to treatment, and societal and transgenerational aspects of trauma are possible with the DTD. This conceptual paper introduces the DTD, the historical background, the development process and implementation strategy, and the associated challenges with developing and running a multicenter database. Most importantly, it highlights the clinical and research potential of the DTD for advancing the understanding and treatment of trauma-affected refugees. |
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spelling | pubmed-104549262023-08-26 The Danish Trauma Database for Refugees (DTD): A Multicenter Database Collaboration—Overcoming the Challenges and Enhancing Mental Health Treatment and Research for Refugees Thøgersen, Marie Høgh Bager, Line Bangsgaard, Sofie Grimshave Palic, Sabina Auning-Hansen, Mikkel Møller, Stine Bjerrum Larsen, Kirstine Bruun Tækker, Louise Jensen, Bo Søndergaard Bothe, Søren Nordin, Linda Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Mental health of trauma-affected refugees is an understudied area, resulting in inadequate and poorer treatment outcomes. To address this, more high-quality treatment studies that include predictive analyses, long-term evaluations, cultural adaptations, and take account for comorbidities, are needed. Moreover, given the complex intertwining of refugees’ health with post-migration stressors and other social factors, it is crucial to examine the social determinants of refugee mental health. The Danish Trauma Database for Refugees (DTD) is a multicenter research database uniting six national centers that provide outpatient treatment for trauma-affected refugees. Through the database, we collect clinical and sociodemographic data from approximately 1200 refugees annually and will merge the database with Danish population register data. The purpose of the DTD is two-fold; clinical and research. The DTD offers data-driven guidance for routine clinical treatment planning of the individual patient, as well as exceptional research opportunities for testing treatment interventions in clinical settings, with larger sample sizes, and more representative heterogeneity of the population. Complex analyses of risk and protective factors, barriers, access to treatment, and societal and transgenerational aspects of trauma are possible with the DTD. This conceptual paper introduces the DTD, the historical background, the development process and implementation strategy, and the associated challenges with developing and running a multicenter database. Most importantly, it highlights the clinical and research potential of the DTD for advancing the understanding and treatment of trauma-affected refugees. MDPI 2023-08-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10454926/ /pubmed/37623194 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20166611 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Thøgersen, Marie Høgh Bager, Line Bangsgaard, Sofie Grimshave Palic, Sabina Auning-Hansen, Mikkel Møller, Stine Bjerrum Larsen, Kirstine Bruun Tækker, Louise Jensen, Bo Søndergaard Bothe, Søren Nordin, Linda The Danish Trauma Database for Refugees (DTD): A Multicenter Database Collaboration—Overcoming the Challenges and Enhancing Mental Health Treatment and Research for Refugees |
title | The Danish Trauma Database for Refugees (DTD): A Multicenter Database Collaboration—Overcoming the Challenges and Enhancing Mental Health Treatment and Research for Refugees |
title_full | The Danish Trauma Database for Refugees (DTD): A Multicenter Database Collaboration—Overcoming the Challenges and Enhancing Mental Health Treatment and Research for Refugees |
title_fullStr | The Danish Trauma Database for Refugees (DTD): A Multicenter Database Collaboration—Overcoming the Challenges and Enhancing Mental Health Treatment and Research for Refugees |
title_full_unstemmed | The Danish Trauma Database for Refugees (DTD): A Multicenter Database Collaboration—Overcoming the Challenges and Enhancing Mental Health Treatment and Research for Refugees |
title_short | The Danish Trauma Database for Refugees (DTD): A Multicenter Database Collaboration—Overcoming the Challenges and Enhancing Mental Health Treatment and Research for Refugees |
title_sort | danish trauma database for refugees (dtd): a multicenter database collaboration—overcoming the challenges and enhancing mental health treatment and research for refugees |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10454926/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37623194 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20166611 |
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