tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: " Psychopathological status, behavior problems, and family adjustment of Kuwaiti children whose fathers were involved in the first gulf war"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Psychopathological status, behavior problems, and family adjustment of Kuwaiti children whose fathers were involved in the first gulf war. | Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health o BioMed Central Psychopathological status behavior problems and family adjustment of Kuwaiti children whose fathers were involved in the first gulf war Fawziyah A Al-Turkait1 and Jude U Ohaeri 2 Address Department of Psychology College of Education Public Authority for Applied Education and Training Kuwait . Box 117 Safat 13002 Kuwait and 2Department of Psychiatry Psychological Medicine Hospital Gamal Abdul Naser Road . Box 4081 Safat 13041 Kuwait Email Fawziyah A Al-Turkait - turkait@ Jude U Ohaeri - judeohaeri@ Corresponding author Published 29 May 2008 Received 18 February 2008 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2008 2 12 doi l753-2000-2- Accepted 29 May 2008 12 This article is available from http content 2 1 12 2008 Al-Turkait and Ohaeri licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Objectives Following the end of the Gulf War that resulted in the liberation of Kuwait there are no reports on the impact of veterans traumatic exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder PTSD on their children. We compared the severity of anxiety depression deviant behavior and poor family adjustment among the children of a stratified random sample of four groups of Kuwaiti military men viz the retired an active -in-the-army group AIA involved in duties at the rear an in-battle group IB involved in combat and a prisoners -of- war POWs group. Also we assessed the association of father s PTSD combat status and mother s characteristics with child psychosocial outcomes. Method Subjects were interviewed at home 6 years after the war using the Child Behavior Index to assess anxiety depression and adaptive behavior Rutter .