title: Acculturation, psychiatric comorbidity and posttraumatic stress disorder in a Taiwanese aboriginal population.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This study investigates acculturation and other antecedent psychiatric and socio-environmental risk factors for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in one aboriginal group (the Bunun) exposed to an earthquake disaster in Taiwan.
  
  
  METHODS
  Respondents (n = 196) were assessed 5 months after the disaster, using a Chinese version of the Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry and the Taiwan Aboriginal Acculturation Scale.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Four risk factors exerted independent effect on the risk of PTSD, including magnitude of the earthquake, subsequent traumas, antecedent major depressive disorder and acculturation status.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Public mental health programs need to consider the liability to PTSD in populations with different ethnicity and socio-cultural environments.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Lo-Tung Poh-Ai Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Chau-Shoun
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Jung-Chen
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Chia-Yih
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Ching-Jui
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Tony H H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Chien-Hsiun
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Andrew T A
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Cheng
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D000328:Adult; D044466:Asian People / Q000523:psychology*; D015897:Comorbidity; D017831:Diagnosis, Dual (Psychiatry); D004190:Disasters; D055866:Earthquakes; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012307:Risk Factors; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D013624:Taiwan / Q000453:epidemiology