Judith Pettigrew

TL;DR: A multi-disciplinary review of reported findings regarding the relations between political violence, mental health and psychosocial wellbeing in Nepal and the continuing controversy regarding the PTSD construct discusses a number of issues of concern to international researchers and practitioners and presents policy and research recommendations.

TL;DR: One of the most reported aspects of the Maoist 'People's War' in Nepal has been its high levels of female participation, with up to 40% of all combatant and civilian political supporters allegedly being women as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Given the proliferation of qualitative methods in occupational therapy research, rigorous use of meta-ethnography has great potential to contribute to the research evidence base.

TL;DR: It is argued that doing, being and belonging may act as an important link to widely acknowledged relationships between social factors and health and wellbeing, and that interventions targeting individual change may be problematic.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on a study undertaken in earthquake-affected regions in Nepal devastated by April 2015 quake and its major aftershock a month later, where participants (n=399) completed measures of their earthquake experience, Post-Traumatic Stress and Post Traumatic growth (PTG), as well as measures of community identification and collective efficacy.