Prevalence of Indicators of Psychological and Mental Disorders among Silent Victims (Forcedly Displaced

Abstract

It is very important to investigate the psychological and mental disorders among women and children who displaced forcedly their houses. For this reason, so many scientific studies tried to investigate the impact of such tough experience from so many aspects (psychological, social, adaptation, mental and psychological disorders) that these people might face when they leave their origin homes. However, we know of no study looking at psychological and mental disorders following displacement among women and children who live in camps in Anbar prevalence. This study aimed to address this gap in the literature by exploring the prevalence of traumatic events, indicators of psychological and mental disorders among women and children and their relationships with some variables (duration of stay in the camp). A total of (195) women and (225) child who live in 4 camps were recruited for this study. After analyzing the data, the results showed that (81.5%) of women and (76.4%) of children were exposed to atraumatic events. The results also showed that all the indicators of psychological and mental disorders distributed among children and women. It was found the indicator of feeling continuous sadness, despair, felling helplessness was the highest among women (95.4%), followed by feeling frustrated and depressed (90.8%), and nervousness (87.7%). For children, the indicator of withdrawing and introversion was the highest (81.8%), followed by the indicator of exaggerated fear (81.8%). The results also suggested that there is a significant relationship between prevalence of psychological and mental disorders and duration of staying in the camp for women and children alike. Finally, the study could not find a significant relationship between the psychological and mental disorders according to gender variable