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Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2001;58:483-484.

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METHODS for studying traumatized populations have advanced substantially in recent decades. Trauma research has integrated basic methodological procedures into its standard repertoire, advancing from open-ended interviews of selected trauma survivors to rigorous studies of epidemiology. This is no small feat given that trauma is an inherently difficult subject for scientific investigation.

The study by Van Ommeren et al¹ of tortured Bhutanese refugees in Nepal in this issue of the ARCHIVES has vanquished a myriad of methodological obstacles through application of systematic research tools. It has provided important data about a difficult-to-penetrate subject in this underserved and underrecognized population with clearly unmet mental health needs.

Careful attention to methodological issues in this study resulted in numerous elements worthy of mention. These included (1) a longitudinal design, from 1995 to 1997; (2) a large sample size (526 tortured subjects and 526 nontortured sex- and age-matched comparison subjects); (3) random subject selection from . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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