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Predictors of English fluency among Hmong refugees in Minnesota: A longitudinal study.
Cultural Diversity & Mental Health, 1996The objective of this study was to assess factors associated with later acquisition of English language fluency among Hmong refugees in Minnesota. Fluency in a society's lingua franca is a critical skill in psychosocial adaptation and mental health. A longitudinal study design was used, in which premigration and early postmigration factors were related
J, Westermeyer, C, Her
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Comparative study of Cambodian, Hmong, and Caucasian infant and maternal perinatal profiles
Journal of Nurse-Midwifery, 1985The refugees of Southeast Asia continue to enter the United States in large numbers and have many health care needs. Specific data on normal growth and normative processes are lacking in these diverse cultural groups. Perinatal parameters among Cambodian and Hmong families were studied and compared with those of a Caucasian control group.
D, Richman, S, Dixon
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A Comparative Study of Male and Female Opium Addicts Among the Hmong (Meo*)
British Journal of Addiction to Alcohol & Other Drugs, 1978AbstractThis study was undertaken in order to elucidate the differences and similarities between male and female opium addicts in Hmong society. Remarkably, only two differences were found: sex ratio (more male addicts) and occupation (most women reported themselves as ‘housewives’). Comparison of twelve other demographic and clinical factors failed to
J, Westermeyer, G, Peng
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Coming to the Cultural “In-Between”: Nursing Insights From a Hmong Birth Case Study
Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing, 2005This article discusses the historical background and traditional beliefs of the Hmong. Cultural conflict occurs when traditional Hmong beliefs and Western health care ideologies are misunderstood. A specific case study focuses on care of a Hmong woman and her husband after a precipitous birth, hemorrhage, and surgical intervention. Nursing insights are
Rita A, Sperstad, Joan Stehle, Werner
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An acoustic and electroglottographic study of White Hmong tone and phonation
Journal of Phonetics, 2012Abstract This study examines tone and phonation in White Hmong, a language with seven tones (traditionally described as: high, mid, low, high-falling, mid-rising, low-falling, and mid-low) and three phonations (low-falling tone is creaky, mid-low tone is breathy and the remaining tones are modal).
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Hmong American and Diaspora Studies
Amerasia Journal, 2018Gary Yia Lee +4 more
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DSM-III psychiatric disorders among Hmong refugees in the United States: a point prevalence study
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1988The author reports on a survey of 97 Hmong adult refugees in the United States. Thirty of these refugees showed symptoms of chronic maladjustment, and 13 showed another DSM-III axis I disorder; two manifested a paranoid psychosis, and six had a major depression. There were few axis II diagnoses.
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While some of the Hmong refugees from Laos living at Thamkrabok had made their homes on the temple's grounds since the early 1960s, many others came to join friends and family there in the late 1980's and early 1990's as refugee camps throughout Thailand were closed. Given their prolonged refugee situation and the lack in international assistance until
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Charting New Paths for Critical Hmong American and Diaspora Studies
Amerasia Journal, 2018Yang Sao Xiong +2 more
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A Study on Approximate Time Words in Funing Hmong Language
Modern Linguistics, 2023openaire +1 more source