Yurtbay Tülin, Alyanak Behiye, Abali Osman, Kaynak Nimet, Durukan Melek
Istanbul Tip Fakultesi, Cocuk Psikiyatrisi Anabilim Dali, Capa, 34390, Istanbul, Turkey.
Community Ment Health J. 2003 Jun;39(3):203-12. doi: 10.1023/a:1023386122344.
The object of this study was to investigate the psychological effects of forced emigration on Muslim Albanian children and adolescents who were forced to emigrate due to the war in Kosova.
The sample of the study consisted of 150 children between the ages 9-12 and 100 adolescents between the ages 15-19 living in the Gaziosmanpaşa Refugee Shelter in Turkey, and as a control group, 66 children and 52 adolescents; making a total of 368 subjects were included in the study. We applied State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) as well as a semi-structured open-ended questionnaire investigating the socio-demographic characteristics and psychiatric symptoms of the study and control groups.
Trait anxiety (TAI) levels of the children in the study group are higher than these in the control group. The analysis of the average Depressive Symptom scores of study group children (M = 15.70) and control group children (M = 7.37) was conducted with the application of t-test. The highly significant values of t = 7.73 p < 0.0001 indicate depressive symptoms among study group. Trait anxiety (TAI) scores of study group adolescents were higher than these in the control group (M = 43.56) and (M = 35.59), respectively and the values of t = 5.95, p < 0.0001 show that this is a highly significant difference. The comparison of the average depressive (BDI) symptom scores of study group and control group adolescents (M = 17.57 and M = 4.59 respectively) revealed the very significant values of t = 7.88, p < 0.0001. The evaluation of the semi-structured questionnaires also revealed that depressive symptoms, somatic symptoms and other psychiatric symptoms were also higher in the study group.
Our findings support the common opinion that war and terror incidents severely hurt children.
本研究旨在调查因科索沃战争被迫移民的阿尔巴尼亚穆斯林儿童和青少年所受的心理影响。
研究样本包括居住在土耳其加济奥斯曼帕夏难民营的150名9至12岁儿童和100名15至19岁青少年，作为对照组的有66名儿童和52名青少年；总计368名受试者纳入研究。我们应用了状态-特质焦虑量表（STAI）、贝克抑郁量表（BDI）、儿童抑郁量表（CDI）以及一份半结构化开放式问卷，以调查研究组和对照组的社会人口学特征及精神症状。
研究组儿童的特质焦虑（TAI）水平高于对照组。运用t检验对研究组儿童（M = 15.70）和对照组儿童（M = 7.37）的平均抑郁症状得分进行分析。t值为7.73，p < 0.0001的高度显著值表明研究组存在抑郁症状。研究组青少年的特质焦虑（TAI）得分分别高于对照组（M = 43.56）和（M = 35.59），t值为5.95，p < 0.0001表明这是一个高度显著的差异。研究组和对照组青少年平均抑郁（BDI）症状得分的比较（分别为M = 17.57和M = 4.59）显示t值为7.88，p < 0.0001，差异非常显著。对半结构化问卷的评估还显示，研究组的抑郁症状、躯体症状和其他精神症状也更高。
我们的研究结果支持了战争和恐怖事件严重伤害儿童这一普遍观点。
