In northwestern Pakistan, nearly 950,000 people (126,224 families) remain displaced, residing either in displacement camps or in host areas.5 Given the occurrence of devastating floods for two years in a row, disaster risk reduction activities for flooded areas are essential.
Relative risk ratio (RRR) was calculated for any CMD, between groups remaining in displacement and returnees, adjusted for socio-demographic factors (gender, age at displacement, marital status, education, food security, financial debt, employment, and social networks).
Land ownership prior to displacement and source of resettlement land were not significantly associated with CMD in those remaining in displacement (OR 1.7 95% CI 0.7 3.9) or return migrants (OR 1.9 95% CI 0.8 4.5) (data not shown).> -wrap-foot> Bold values are significant at p < 0.001.
Finally, the radioactivity remaining after displacement studies observed in the lesion compared to the contralateral hemisphere for both radiotracers might be due to the increase of the radiotracer influx/efflux ratio (k1/k2) as a consequence of the blood-brain barrier disruption following cerebral ischemia.
Overall CMD prevalence had more than halved from 18.8% to 8.6% in the follow-up group remaining in displacement.
Social isolation was significantly associated with CMD in all three groups, with the strongest association in the group remaining in displacement.
Statistically significant prevalence differences were observed for any CMD, somatoform disorder, major depression, other depression and PTSD between the baseline group and the group remaining in displacement.
In this respect, the return migrant group characteristics had more in common with the baseline sample than those remaining in displacement.
Unadjusted RRR for any CMD between the group remaining in displacement and the returnee group was 1.2 (95% CI 0.7 2.1), and remained unchanged when adjusted for socio-demographic factors (1.2; 95% CI 0.6 2.2).
