Kashmir Valley has been in total communication blockade since 5th August 2019. Non Resident Kashmiris ( NRK) living around the world are not able to speak to their families, older parents, or unwell relatives due to total and complete communication blackout, curfew and lack of news from local media.
I would appreciate if anyone know of any studies published in such circumstances looks at the psychological distress in those ( like NRKs here) who are not able to reach families and are constantly worrying because of not knowing and war like situation.
Any papers, articles or manuscripts will be appreciated .
I am not aware of any research studies that address this problem.
AC
It is obvious that such a situation causes massive stress.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/08/kashmir-communications-blackout-is-draconian-says-un-envoy
https://www.msf.org/sites/msf.org/files/msf_mentalhealthguidelines.pdf
do not know if this helps you: https://emergency.cdc.gov/cerc/resources/pdf/cerc_2014edition.pdf
There are lots of studies, which have discussed psychological distress and migration, immigrants, etc. But the topic itself is exploratory in nature and you are getting a readymade gap. The people residing outside Kashmir are the universe. So using Kesseler Psychological Distress Scale(K10) will help you out to reach a certain conclusion. Even a comparative study among outside and inside will give intriguing insights. Even I have published two papers by taking psychological distress. But psychological distress among people debarred from communicating to the outside world will give some new insights.
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