Internally displaced persons and their mental health status
Introduction There are about 1.5 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Ukraine, which requires an assessment of their mental health. Objectives To develop a psychoeducational program aimed at informing about the clinical manifestations (markers of symptoms) of mental disorders, the poss...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2021-04-01
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| Series: | European Psychiatry |
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| Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0924933821010889/type/journal_article |
| Summary: | Introduction
There are about 1.5 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Ukraine, which requires an assessment of their mental health.
Objectives
To develop a psychoeducational program aimed at informing about the clinical manifestations (markers of symptoms) of mental disorders, the possibilities of preventing their formation and options for action in conditions of the formation or exacerbation of a mental state.
Methods
270 IDPs were examined. Methods: clinical-psychopathological, psychometric, statistical.
Results
Evaluation of the mental state of IDPs with symptoms of mental disorders (risk group (31.92%)) indicates the presence of various emotional disorders that formed individual syndromes – asthenic (41.18%), agrypnic (45.59%), somato-vegetative (30.88%), anxiety-depressive (20, 59%). The risk factors for the development of mental disorders in IDPs were identified - the older age is from 50 to 59 and the average age is from 40 to 49 years; lack of a complete family, lack of work, low level of social employment, lack of satisfactory living conditions, a significant decrease in the level of well-being, the preservation of the significance of factors of mental trauma, the presence of certain prenosological syndromes. The proposed psychoeducational program is built on the principle of thematic seminars with elements of social and psychological training.
Conclusions
The implementation of the program provides a comprehensive impact on the cognitive, emotional, psychophysiological, behavioral and social aspects of personality functioning.
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| ISSN: | 0924-9338 1778-3585 |