The psychosocial health of shan children in Northwest Thailand

Nishant Verma; Rufina Lee; Celina Su; Coralie Chan; Peter Muennig

doi:10.1080/15562948.2010.522477

The psychosocial health of shan children in Northwest Thailand

Nishant Verma, Rufina Lee, Celina Su, Coralie Chan, Peter Muennig^*

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We administered the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) to 51 Shan refugee children from Burma who are living in northern Thailand, and collected life histories from 11 of their families. Of the sample, 63% of the children were stateless, and none were Thai citizens. About 30% of the children had normal peer relationship subscores-a number well below Thai norms after correcting for multiple comparisons (p <.001). However, thier overall functioning was not different from the Thai population as a whole.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	445-449
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies
Volume	8
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2010.522477
State	Published - Oct 2010

Keywords

Myanmar
Psychosocial health
Shan
Statelessness
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire

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Health(social science)
Geography, Planning and Development

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