ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
Trauma-Related Psychopathology in Iraqi Refugee Youth Resettled in the United States, and Comparison With an Ethnically Similar Refugee Sample: A Cross-Sectional Study.
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- Refugee and asylum seeker child and adolescent mental health: A systematic review of racial, ethnic, and contextual disparities.The American journal of orthopsychiatry · 2026Pooled it
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- What happened matters: Trauma type and cumulative trauma exposure in refugee youth psychopathology.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2025Article
- Fleeing the war: A socio-ecological perspective on the mental health of internally displaced and refugee children and adolescents living in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.PLOS mental health · 2025Article
- Long-lasting effects of post-traumatic stress disorder in Yazidi women living in Northern Iraqi camps.Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences · 2024Article
- Child mental health predictors among camp Tamil refugees: Utilizing linear and XGBOOST models.PloS one · 2024Article
- The fear that remains: Associations between trauma, related psychopathology, and fear-potentiated startle in youth resettled as refugees.Developmental psychobiology · 2023Article
- The Predictive Utility of Trauma Subtypes in the Assessment of Mental Health Outcomes for Persons Resettled as Refugees.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2023Article
- Children's emotional and behavioral response following a migration: a scoping review.Journal of migration and health · 2023Article
- Biological Psychiatry in Displaced Populations: What We Know, and What We Need to Begin to Learn.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2022Review
- Skin conductance response to trauma interview as a candidate biomarker of trauma and related psychopathology in youth resettled as refugees.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2022Article
- Addressing Mental Health Concerns in Refugees and Displaced Populations: Is Enough Being Done?Risk management and healthcare policy · 2022Review
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backgroundConflict in Iraq has displaced millions of refugee youth. Warzone exposure and forced migration have unique acute and chronic impacts on youth, yet effects of exposure may not be universal across diverse refugee groups. Understanding how youth from various refugee groups are differentially affected by stress and trauma is critical to allocate resources and implement screening measures with the goal of providing early intervention.
methodTo identify the effects of warzone exposure and forced migration, a convenience sample of 48 Iraqi refugee youth ages 6-17 was assessed within the first month of arrival to the United States. Youth provided self-reported severity of posttraumatic stress and anxiety symptoms; symptom severity was then compared with an existing sample of 135 Syrian refugee youth to explore whether refugee youth of different nationalities experience the same effects of warzone exposure and forced migration. These data are the baseline for a longitudinal developmental study of refugee health, which also includes parental data.
resultsSeverity of separation anxiety and negative alterations in cognition and mood were the greatest symptomatic concerns in Iraqi refugee youth. Thirty-eight percent of responding Iraqi youth showed possible indication of an anxiety disorder. Severity of posttraumatic stress symptoms was lower in Iraqi youth compared to Syrian youth. For both Iraqi and Syrian refugee youth, separation anxiety was the most significant concern, with more than 80% of both samples showing a possible indication of clinically significant separation anxiety.
conclusionThe present observational study indicated that Iraqi refugee youth experience a range of anxiety and posttraumatic stress symptoms following warzone exposure and forced migration; posttraumatic stress symptoms were less severe in Iraqi versus Syrian youth. Comparing refugee youth of different nationalities is of particular importance, as our results demonstrate that findings from one refugee population cannot easily be generalized to another. Clinical and research efforts should prioritize interventions to address separation anxiety in refugee youth, which was of concern in both samples.
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