ArticleJournal of immigrant and minority health2014
The prevalence of torture and associated symptoms in United States Iraqi refugees.
Article in Journal of immigrant and minority health, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 66 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cost Savings from Integrating Behavioral Health in Primary Care: A Pragmatic Randomized Control Trial with Karen Refugees.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2026Trial
- A randomized controlled trial of mental health interventions for survivors of systematic violence in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq.BMC psychiatry · 2014Trial
- New Checkbox, Now What? A Scoping Review to Guide Health Research among Middle Eastern and North African Communities.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Enhancing surgical care for torture survivors: healing trauma, promoting recovery, and advancing best practices.BMC surgery · 2025Review
- Experiences of resettled Iraqi and Syrian refugee young people and families with a mental health triage and assessment service.Transcultural psychiatry · 2025Article
- Factors Associated with Implementing the Integrated Behavioral Health Care Model and Iraqi Refugees in the USA.Community mental health journal · 2023Article
- The Presence and Profile of Neurological Conditions and Associated Psychiatric Comorbidities in U.S. Resettled Refugees: A Retrospective Single Center Study.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2023Article
- Associations between gender, torture, and health: A 5-year retrospective cohort analysis.Journal of loss & trauma · 2023Article
- Tortures alleged by migrants in Italy: compatibility and other medicolegal challenges.International journal of legal medicine · 2021Article
- Twenty seven years of treating survivors of torture and organized violence - associations between torture, gender and ethnic minority status among refugees referred for treatment of PTSD.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2021Article
- Trauma-Related Psychopathology in Iraqi Refugee Youth Resettled in the United States, and Comparison With an Ethnically Similar Refugee Sample: A Cross-Sectional Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- "In Africa, There Was No Family Planning. Every Year You Just Give Birth": Family Planning Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Among Somali and Congolese Refugee Women After Resettlement to the United States.Qualitative health research · 2020Article
- Mental Health of Refugees and Torture Survivors: A Critical Review of Prevalence, Predictors, and Integrated Care.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Review
- Psychological Burden in Female, Iraqi Refugees Who Suffered Extreme Violence by the "Islamic State": The Perspective of Care Providers.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018Article
- Causes of and risk factors for posttraumatic stress disorder: the beliefs of Iraqi and Afghan refugees resettled in Australia.International journal of mental health systems · 2017Article
- Characteristics of Successful and Unsuccessful Mental Health Referrals of Refugees.Administration and policy in mental health · 2016Article
- Observational
- Care of Adult Refugees with Chronic Conditions.The Medical clinics of North America · 2015Review
- War trauma and torture experiences reported during public health screening of newly resettled Karen refugees: a qualitative study.BMC international health and human rights · 2015Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Iraqi refugees face difficulties resettling in the US, which may be partially due to high rates of torture. This study determines the rates of torture experience, primary and secondary, among Iraqi refugees in the US; and the association to physical and mental health symptoms on arrival. A retrospective review was conducted in 2011 on the post-arrival health screens of Iraqi refugees resettled in Utah in 2008 and 2009. Measures included reports of torture experience as defined by the United Nations; reports of physical and mental health symptoms at the time of screening; and association of torture to the presence of symptoms on arrival. The study included the health screens of 497 (97%) of eligible Iraqi refugees. Most experienced torture (56%) before arrival in the US Logistic regression revealed that torture was the most significant predictor of mental illness symptoms. Iraqi refugees in the US have a high prevalence of torture, and torture is associated with the presence of both mental and physical symptoms on the post-arrival health screen. This information is critical to the development of successful resettlement strategies for Iraqi refugees.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.