Effect of Traumatic Experiences Related To ISIS on Psychiatric Symptoms among Undergraduate Displaced Students of AL-Qadisiyah University

Jabor HA

Published on: 2024-09-07

Abstract

Introduction: The Iraqi people have gone through many stressful events. The worst event was the attacks that had occurred in the northern and western regions of Iraq by ISIS that was occupied the city of Mosul on June 10th 2014. Most of the family exposed to traumatic events so their lives were also threatened and some of them lost a member of their family or friends.

Methods: Data were collected from 40 Displaced Students, by using Davidson Trauma Scale-DSM-IV that was translated by Abdul Aziz that to measure post trauma stress disorder, a non- probability (purposive) sample was selected.

Results: The result indicated that more than half of the sample (52.5%) they have PTSD and they have traumatic experiences in their city before displaced while (47.5%) they don’t have symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. The results indicated that there significant relationship between post-traumatic stress disorder and gender of students at p value (0.05).

Conclusion: Majority of sample were from college of education so came from Anbar, Diyala, Ninewa and Salah-al Din.