在尼日利亚尼日利亚贝努埃州的两个冲突后社区对创伤后应激障碍的比较研究
Aladi N Edeh1, Richard Uwakwe2, Taiwo J Obindo3
1Department of Psychiatry, Benue State University Teaching Hospital, Makurdi, Nigeria.
Dialogues in health
|March 22, 2024
概括
尼日利亚的Tiv-Fulani农牧危机导致直接暴露的社区中创伤后应激障碍 (PTSD) 的比率更高. 更低的教育水平也与冲突后的PTSD脆弱性增加有关.
科学领域:
- 心理健康研究 心理健康研究
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 冲突研究 冲突研究
背景情况:
- 尼日利亚冲突对心理健康的长期影响仍未得到充分研究.
- 贝努埃州的Tiv-Fulani农牧危机 (2013/2014) 是一个具有潜在心理影响的重大冲突.
研究的目的:
- 为了评估创伤后应激障碍 (PTSD) 在直接或间接暴露于Tiv-Fulani农民牧民危机的社区中的患病率.
- 检查PTSD症状的分布模式,并确定相关因素.
- 了解冲突发生多年后,冲突对心理健康的影响.
主要方法:
- 采用了横截面研究设计.
- 多阶段集群采样从两个社区选出了413名参与者:Uikpiam (直接暴露) 和Daudu (间接暴露).
- 数据收集涉及社会人口统计学问卷和复合国际诊断访谈的PTSD模块.
主要成果:
- 与间接暴露社区 (Daudu,4.3%) 相比,直接暴露社区 (Uikpiam,16.3%) 的PTSD患病率显著更高.
- 在这两个社区中,观察到大量的下值PTSD症状.
- 较低的教育程度被发现与PTSD有显著的关联 (χ2 = 8.373; p = 0.039).
结论:
- 创伤后应激障碍 (PTSD) 可能是冲突的长期心理健康后果,接近创伤增加了脆弱性.
- 较低的教育资格与危机后患PTSD的风险更高有关.
- 这项研究专注于PTSD;需要进一步的研究来探索由危机导致的全方位心理健康结果.
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