HTW 221 Lecture Notes - Pubmed, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, American Psychiatric Association

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The most common lifetime diagnoses in the american indian populations were alcohol dependence, posttraumatic stress disorder (ptsd), and major depressive episode, after differences in demographic variables were accounted for, both. Indian populations and was especially common in the southwest: american indian populations had comparable, and in some cases greater, mental health service needs, compared with the general population of the united states. Source: http://www. ncbi. nlm. nih. gov/pubmed/16135633: population: 4. 1 million, 1. 5% of u. s population, more likely to live in poverty- over twice as many ai/ans live in poverty than. 2/3 live in urban, suburban, or rural non-reservation areas. 42% of ai/an age 12 and older used alcohol in past month. 14% of people age 12 and older in past year were dependent on alcohol or abused alcohol greater percentage native americans actively seek services than general us pop especially when traditional healing was included. Beals, j. , novins, d. , whitesell, n. , spicer, p. , mitchell, c. , &

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