Displacement is a psychologically traumatic event. Displaced persons may be subjected to traumatic events such as, physical assault, threat of death, loss of relatives, and armed conflict, as it may lead to loss of resources, economic uncertainty, absence of health services and education. Mostly PTSD, has been observed in persons who have been subjected to displacement or conflicts a PTSD rate of 14-37% has been reported among such individuals [1].

Figure 1: Top View of Scared Young Man with PTSD Having Nightmares and Screaming At Night.

Iraq has a long history of social unrest and population displacement and several decades of conflict, which has social and psychological problem approximately more than 1.8 million Iraqi people have been newly displaced since January 2014 [2-5]. Many of Iraq’s 1.8 million newly displaced persons (IDPs) are now spread across approximately 26 IDP camps and over 1700 informal IDP sites.

Design of the Study

A descriptive analytical study was carried out to identify the Prevalence of Post Trauma Stress Disorder among Displaced Students in AL- Qadisiyah University.

The Study Instrument

The researchers were used Davidson Trauma Scale-DSM-IV that was Translated by Abdul Aziz tablet to measure post trauma stress disorder. The questionnaire of post trauma stress disorder consist of seventeen items according to DSM-IV each item take the following possibilities 0- never, 1- rarely, 2- some time, 3- mostly, 4- always. It is divided into three sub-scale 1- recovery of experience number items are (1, 2, 3,4, 17) 2- avoidance of experience (5,6,7,8,9,10,11) and arousal (12,13,14,15,16). The total score of scale ranges between 0-68.

Collection of Data

The data were collected throughout the informal interview with the students from ten college from 5^th October to 24^th December 2016. A non- probability (purposive) sample of 40 students who were studying in the University of AL-Qadisiyah. The face validity of the questionnaire was determined through a panel of 5 expert’s specialty with psychiatric.

Table 1: shows that the prevalence of PTSD among students according to their colleges.

The results indicate that the most of displaced students (52.5%) they have PTSD based on their traumatic experiences by ISIS before the displaced and most of them were at the college of education (32.5%). While the (47.5) of the study sample they don’t have psychiatric symptoms such as PTSD.

Table 2: reveals the relationship between PTSD among students and demographic data (gender, and place of displacement).

The finding indicated that there was significant relationship between PTSD and gender of displaced students who experiences of traumatic events and their gender while there is doesn’t significant relationship between the symptoms of PTSD among students and place of displacement at p value 0.05.

The findings of the present study show that the security situation in Anbar, Diyala, Ninewa and Salah-al Din remains volatile and unpredictable and highly problematic (52.5%) of the students were have PTSD and (47.5%) of them were don't have PTSD , majority of them were college of education, This result comes along with Turlejska, he found that the most of internally displaced students have post trauma stress disorder and also our result come along with the study of Essizoglu and keser [1], they were found that the most of the students immigrants have post trauma stress disorder, in regard to most of students were of college of education that is normal result because it is the largest college in AL-Qadyisia university [6-10]. The study results show that the significance relationship between gender of students and prevalence of post trauma stress disorder this result is come along with the study of Essizoglu and Keser were found that the significant differences of prevalence of post trauma stress disorder among the displaced persons in regard to their gender, from the researchers point of view that indicate the males more exposure for threatening their life than female therefore the number of sample who have post trauma stress disorder male than female.

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