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Aims and methods of CONNECT (Components, organization, costs and outcomes of health care and community based interventions lot people with posttraumatic stress following war and conflict in the Balkans)

Objective was to describe the aims and methods of the components, organization, costs, and outcomes of medical care and dommunity based interventions for people with posttraumatic stress following war and conflict in the Blakans (CONNECT) study, an EC funded study. Method: Descroption of the study protocol as developed in collaboration with nine centres in the UK, Germany, Italy, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Results: We developed a design aimed at the investigation of the components, organization, utilization, costs, and outcomes of health care and communaly-based interventions for people who were exposed to potentially traumatic events because of war and conflicts in former Yugoslavia. The reasearch consists of three interrelated parts: 1. in each of the seven participating countries, a new instrument to register helath care and community based interventions for people with post-traumatic stress will be developed and tested ; 2. in each country, a survey of people who experienced potentially traumatic events in the Balkans will be conducted ; 3. in this survey, people with persistant post-traumatic stress will be identified, interviewed in more detail, and followed up after 1 year. Conclusion: The CONNECT study will identify in different groups and contexts the relative contribution of medical care and community-based interventions to recovery from post-traumatic stress. It will provide empirical evidence to design effective health and social carepolicies for people with post-traumatic stress including the particularly challenging group with persistent symptomps. The first results of this study will be available in 2006

Community interventions; posttraumatic stress; war-related trauma

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