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The latent structure of post-traumatic stress disorder among Arabic-speaking refugees receiving psychiatric treatment in Denmark
BACKGROUND: Refugees are known to have high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although recent years have seen an increase in the number of refugees from Arabic speaking countries in the Middle East, no study so far has validated the construct of PTSD in an Arabic speaking sample of ref...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5011808/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27596249 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-016-0936-0 |
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author | Vindbjerg, Erik Carlsson, Jessica Mortensen, Erik Lykke Elklit, Ask Makransky, Guido |
author_facet | Vindbjerg, Erik Carlsson, Jessica Mortensen, Erik Lykke Elklit, Ask Makransky, Guido |
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description | BACKGROUND: Refugees are known to have high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although recent years have seen an increase in the number of refugees from Arabic speaking countries in the Middle East, no study so far has validated the construct of PTSD in an Arabic speaking sample of refugees. METHODS: Responses to the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (HTQ) were obtained from 409 Arabic-speaking refugees diagnosed with PTSD and undergoing treatment in Denmark. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to test and compare five alternative models. RESULTS: All four- and five-factor models provided sufficient fit indices. However, a combination of excessively small clusters, and a case of mistranslation in the official Arabic translation of the HTQ, rendered results two of the models inadmissible. A post hoc analysis revealed that a simpler factor structure is supported, once local dependence is addressed. CONCLUSIONS: Overall, the construct of PTSD is supported in this sample of Arabic-speaking refugees. Apart from pursuing maximum fit, future studies may wish to test simpler, potentially more stable models, which allow a more informative analysis of individual items. |
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spelling | pubmed-50118082016-09-07 The latent structure of post-traumatic stress disorder among Arabic-speaking refugees receiving psychiatric treatment in Denmark Vindbjerg, Erik Carlsson, Jessica Mortensen, Erik Lykke Elklit, Ask Makransky, Guido BMC Psychiatry Research Article BACKGROUND: Refugees are known to have high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although recent years have seen an increase in the number of refugees from Arabic speaking countries in the Middle East, no study so far has validated the construct of PTSD in an Arabic speaking sample of refugees. METHODS: Responses to the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (HTQ) were obtained from 409 Arabic-speaking refugees diagnosed with PTSD and undergoing treatment in Denmark. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to test and compare five alternative models. RESULTS: All four- and five-factor models provided sufficient fit indices. However, a combination of excessively small clusters, and a case of mistranslation in the official Arabic translation of the HTQ, rendered results two of the models inadmissible. A post hoc analysis revealed that a simpler factor structure is supported, once local dependence is addressed. CONCLUSIONS: Overall, the construct of PTSD is supported in this sample of Arabic-speaking refugees. Apart from pursuing maximum fit, future studies may wish to test simpler, potentially more stable models, which allow a more informative analysis of individual items. BioMed Central 2016-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5011808/ /pubmed/27596249 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-016-0936-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Vindbjerg, Erik Carlsson, Jessica Mortensen, Erik Lykke Elklit, Ask Makransky, Guido The latent structure of post-traumatic stress disorder among Arabic-speaking refugees receiving psychiatric treatment in Denmark |
title | The latent structure of post-traumatic stress disorder among Arabic-speaking refugees receiving psychiatric treatment in Denmark |
title_full | The latent structure of post-traumatic stress disorder among Arabic-speaking refugees receiving psychiatric treatment in Denmark |
title_fullStr | The latent structure of post-traumatic stress disorder among Arabic-speaking refugees receiving psychiatric treatment in Denmark |
title_full_unstemmed | The latent structure of post-traumatic stress disorder among Arabic-speaking refugees receiving psychiatric treatment in Denmark |
title_short | The latent structure of post-traumatic stress disorder among Arabic-speaking refugees receiving psychiatric treatment in Denmark |
title_sort | latent structure of post-traumatic stress disorder among arabic-speaking refugees receiving psychiatric treatment in denmark |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5011808/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27596249 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-016-0936-0 |
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