The objectives of this project, sponsored by the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, include translating, editing, and back translating from English into Arabic-, Serbo-Croatian-, Spanish, and Vietnamese.  A second objective is to use the translated or edited measures to identify new refugees with a mental disorder or at risk for a mental disorder.  The third objective is to monitor symptoms in a systematic way every 3-months (or more frequently if the participant is at extreme risk) until evidence suggests adequate mental health functioning.

A standard battery of key self-report measures is needed in the different languages.  Some key measures already are available in some languages but not in others.  The long-term objective of the proposed investigation is to create a battery that can be used to screen mental health problems among refugees who speak Arabic, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish and Vietnamese.  Another long-term objective is to disseminate the newly developed measures along with evidence of their sensitivity in identifying those with or at risk of mental problems.
 

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