Andrew K May, Demelza Smeeth, Fiona McEwen, Patricia Moghames, Elie Karam, Michael J Rieder, Abdelbaset A Elzagallaai, Stan van Uum, Michael Pluess
For numerous issues of convenience and acceptability, hair hormone data have been increasingly incorporated in the field of war trauma and forced displacement, allowing retrospective examination of several biological metrics thought to covary with refugees' mental health. As a relatively new research method, however, there remain several complexities and uncertainties surrounding the use of hair hormones, from initial hair sampling to final statistical analysis, many of which are underappreciated in the extant literature, and restrict the potential utility of hair hormones...
May 2024: Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology