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Their vulnerability to isolation is exacerbated by poverty, grief, and lack of education, literacy, and skills in the language of the receiving country.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Method.\u2002<\/jats:bold> Using data from a cross\u2010sectional population\u2010based survey, conducted from July 1999 to September 2001, with 1134 Somali and Oromo refugees living in the United States of America, a sub\u2010sample of female participants with clearly identified parenting status (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2003=\u2003458) were analysed. Measures included demographics, history of trauma and torture, scales for physical, psychological, and social problems, and a post\u2010traumatic stress symptom checklist.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Findings.\u2002<\/jats:bold> Results indicated high overall trauma and torture exposure, and associated physical, social and psychological problems. Women with large families reported statistically significantly higher counts of reported trauma (mean 30, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2003&lt;\u20030\u00b7001) and torture (mean 3, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2003&lt;\u20030\u00b7001), and more associated problems (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2003&lt;\u20030\u00b7001) than the other two groups. Women who reported higher levels of trauma and torture were also older (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2003&lt;\u20030\u00b7001), had more family responsibilities, had less formal education (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2003&lt;\u20030\u00b7001) and were less likely to speak English (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2003&lt;\u20030\u00b7001).<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusion.\u2002<\/jats:bold> These findings suggest a need for nurses, and especially public health nurses who work with refugee and immigrant populations in the community, to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the range of refugee women's experiences and the continuum of needs post\u2010migration, particularly among older women with large family responsibilities. Nurses, with their holistic framework, are ideally suited to partner with refugee women to expand their health agenda beyond the biomedical model to promote healing and reconnection with families and communities.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1365-2648.2006.04057.x","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2006,11,21]],"date-time":"2006-11-21T13:16:26Z","timestamp":1164114986000},"page":"577-587","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":89,"title":["Somali and Oromo refugee women: trauma and associated factors"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"56","author":[{"given":"Cheryl Lee","family":"Robertson","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Linda","family":"Halcon","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kay","family":"Savik","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"David","family":"Johnson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Marline","family":"Spring","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"James","family":"Butcher","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Joseph","family":"Westermeyer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"James","family":"Jaranson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2006,11,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_10_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jmwh.2004.05.001"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"144","DOI":"10.1177\/070674379003500207","article-title":"Women as torture victims","volume":"35","author":"Allodi F.","year":"1990","journal-title":"Canadian Journal of Psychiatry"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_4_1","first-page":"138","volume-title":"Human Populations: Diversity and Adaptation","author":"Almedom A.","year":"1995"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/S0021932004006832"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_6_1","unstructured":"Amnesty International Country Reports. 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