Offering Mental Health Services in a Conflict Affected Region of Pakistan: Who Comes, and Why?

Safieh Shah; Rafael Van den Bergh; Benedicte Van Bellinghen; Nathalie Severy; Sana Sadiq; Sher Ali Afridi; Asma Akhtar; Jacob Maïkére; Catherine Van Overloop; Saeed-ur-Rehman; Tahir Bashir-ud-Din Khilji; Saleem-ur-Rehman; Johan van Griensven; Serge Schneider; Philippe Bosman; Erwin Lloyd D. Guillergan; Francesca Dazzi; Rony Zachariah

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0097939

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Offering Mental Health Services in a Conflict Affected Region of Pakistan: Who Comes, and Why?

Safieh Shah ,

* E-mail: msfocb-islamabad-med@brussels.msf.org

Affiliation Medical Department, Médecins Sans Frontières – Operational Centre Brussels, Islamabad, Punjab, Pakistan
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Rafael Van den Bergh,

Affiliation Operational Research Unit (LuxOR), Médecins Sans Frontières – Operational Centre Brussels, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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Benedicte Van Bellinghen,

Affiliation Medical Department, Médecins Sans Frontières – Operational Centre Brussels, Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium
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Nathalie Severy,

Affiliation Medical Department, Médecins Sans Frontières – Operational Centre Brussels, Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium
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Sana Sadiq,

Affiliation Mental Health Clinic, Médecins Sans Frontières– Operational Centre Brussels, Timurgara, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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Sher Ali Afridi,

Affiliation Mental Health Clinic, Médecins Sans Frontières– Operational Centre Brussels, Timurgara, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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Asma Akhtar,

Affiliation Mental Health Clinic, Médecins Sans Frontières– Operational Centre Brussels, Timurgara, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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Jacob Maïkére,

Affiliation Medical Department, Médecins Sans Frontières – Operational Centre Brussels, Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium
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Catherine Van Overloop,

Affiliation Medical Department, Médecins Sans Frontières – Operational Centre Brussels, Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium
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Saeed-ur-Rehman,

Affiliation Pakistan Ministry of Health (MoH), District Headquarter Hospital, Timurgara, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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Tahir Bashir-ud-Din Khilji,

Affiliation Pakistan Ministry of Health (MoH), District Headquarter Hospital, Timurgara, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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Saleem-ur-Rehman,

Affiliation Pakistan Ministry of Health (MoH), District Headquarter Hospital, Timurgara, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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Johan van Griensven,

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
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Serge Schneider,

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières – Operational Centre Luxembourg, Headquarters, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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Philippe Bosman,

Affiliation Medical Department, Médecins Sans Frontières – Operational Centre Brussels, Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium
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Erwin Lloyd D. Guillergan,

Affiliation Medical Department, Médecins Sans Frontières – Operational Centre Brussels, Islamabad, Punjab, Pakistan
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Francesca Dazzi,

Affiliation Medical Department, Médecins Sans Frontières – Operational Centre Brussels, Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium
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Rony Zachariah

Affiliation Operational Research Unit (LuxOR), Médecins Sans Frontières – Operational Centre Brussels, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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Offering Mental Health Services in a Conflict Affected Region of Pakistan: Who Comes, and Why?

Safieh Shah,
Rafael Van den Bergh,
Benedicte Van Bellinghen,
Nathalie Severy,
Sana Sadiq,
Sher Ali Afridi,
Asma Akhtar,
Jacob Maïkére,
Catherine Van Overloop,
Saeed-ur-Rehman

Published: June 25, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0097939

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Discrepancy in Figure titles

Posted by Safieh on 26 Jun 2014 at 05:10 GMT

Dear readers,

Please note that the titles of Figure 1. and Figure 2. are switched around. Therefore, the title for Figure 1. belongs to Figure 2. and vice versa. Please see below for the correct titles:

Figure 1. Trend in mental health consultations, Timurgara district hospital, Pakistan (February - December 2012).

Figure 2. Scale of Severity. Separate pictorial scales, for both genders, used by the patient to score the magnitude of their mental health problem, assessed at their first mental health consultation, Timurgara district hospital, Pakistan (May - December 2012).

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