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ArticleFocus (American Psychiatric Publishing)2021

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Anushka R Patel, Brian J Hall

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Article in Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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22citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. The impact of immigration detention on children's mental health: systematic review.The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science · 2025
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  10. Post-traumatic stress disorder: evolving conceptualization and evidence, and future research directions.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2025
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  19. Still Standing Inside: A Local Idiom Related to Trauma among Namibian Speakers of Khoekhoegowab.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Anushka R PatelDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Trauma Recovery Center, University of California, San Francisco (Patel); School of Global Public Health, New York University-Shanghai (Hall).
Brian J HallDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Trauma Recovery Center, University of California, San Francisco (Patel); School of Global Public Health, New York University-Shanghai (Hall).

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although trauma exposure is a global phenomenon, trauma reactions vary considerably across cultures. Western psychiatric diagnoses, such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), may be limited in capturing the breadth of trauma reactions in cross-cultural contexts. Instead, cross-cultural instruments should examine locally relevant reactions, such as idioms of distress and explanatory models of illness, and account for ongoing stress and adversity. This article explains the need for complementing traditional trauma assessment approaches, how to create culturally sensitive instruments, the style and stance of practicing cultural humility when administering instruments, how to account for ongoing trauma and adversity, and ways to incorporate findings into treatment. These steps can improve culturally sensitive and comprehensive trauma assessment to capture universal and culturally relevant trauma reactions.

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assessmentcross-culturalglobal mental healthidioms of distressPTSDtrauma reactions

Identifiers

PMID34690583
PMCPMC8475922

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