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Terrorist attacks can have a profound impact on people who are exposed to them. This study carried out to assessment of Anxiety and Depression among Refugees with Exposure to Terrorism, in the middle of Iraq. The sample of the study was used 100 refugees with Exposure to Terrorism, selected to be a sample of the study. The setting of the study is confined to Salah Akha refugee's comp.
Aims of the study: 1. To assess anxiety and depression among Refugees with Exposure to Terrorism. 2. Find out the socio-demographic characteristics of among Refugees with Exposure to Terrorism. 3. Assess type of behavioral characteristics of anxiety and depression of Refugees with Exposure to Terrorism.
A questionnaire was constructed mainly to asses the behavioral characteristics of refugees with Exposure to Terrorism, .the constructions of items were based on the following scientific resources. The questionnaire includes the following: Part (1): Socio-demographical data of refugees with Exposure to Terrorism, to obtain general information and including:Age, gender, marital states, level of education .occupation. Part (2): Behavioral characteristic of anxiety and depression disorder. The statistical procedures were applied to determine the result of present study includes: a. Description statistic :This approach includes following statistic. a. Percentage(%) to calculate the description of sample. b. mean and standard deviation to estimate the value of some data.
Result: 1- It appears from the table that most frequent age group is 29-38 years and represents 30%, and least frequent group of 49-58 (10%), the mean of the ages (29.84). Most of the refugees were females (68%), married (65%). The table reveals that most of the refugees were with primary school education (43%), and 2% of them are graduated from the institute. Also the table shows that most of the refugees are unemployed and represents (78%).The majorities of the sample are feeling of weak and get tired easy, bothered by dizzy spell and have to empty his or her bladder often 24%. It appears from table (2) that majority of the sample are large of the time have feeling afraid for no reason at all 47%. It appears from table (3) that majority of the samples never have feeling of suicide 77%.