Young people, mental health, and civil conflict: Preliminary findings from Ethiopia's Tigray region
We examine the association between mental health and violent conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region. Two longitudinal phone-surveys (08/2020–10/2020; 11/2020–01/2021) interviewed 122 young people in Tigray. We use t-tests for the difference in means outcomes between calls to investigate how their...
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| author | Marta Favara Annina Hittmeyer Catherine Porter Saurabh Singhal Tassew Woldehanna |
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| description | We examine the association between mental health and violent conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region. Two longitudinal phone-surveys (08/2020–10/2020; 11/2020–01/2021) interviewed 122 young people in Tigray. We use t-tests for the difference in means outcomes between calls to investigate how their mental health evolved before and after the outbreak of conflict (11/2020). Post-outbreak rates of anxiety (34%) were three times higher than 2–3 months before. Similarly, rates of depression increased significantly from 16% to 25%. Males experienced greater increases in anxiety, females in depression. Mental health issues have likely worsened further during the ongoing conflict, making mental health support urgently needed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dffd471dd5ac466cb08615c78330cf762022-12-21T23:53:47ZengElsevierPsychiatry Research Communications2772-59872022-03-0121100025Young people, mental health, and civil conflict: Preliminary findings from Ethiopia's Tigray regionMarta Favara0Annina Hittmeyer1Catherine Porter2Saurabh Singhal3Tassew Woldehanna4Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford, 3 Mansfield Rd, Oxford, OX1 3TB, United Kingdom; Corresponding author.Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford, 3 Mansfield Rd, Oxford, OX1 3TB, United KingdomOxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford, 3 Mansfield Rd, Oxford, OX1 3TB, United Kingdom; Lancaster University Management School, Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YX, United KingdomLancaster University Management School, Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YX, United KingdomDepartment of Economics, Addis Ababa University (AAU), P.O. Box 150175, Addis Ababa, EthiopiaWe examine the association between mental health and violent conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region. Two longitudinal phone-surveys (08/2020–10/2020; 11/2020–01/2021) interviewed 122 young people in Tigray. We use t-tests for the difference in means outcomes between calls to investigate how their mental health evolved before and after the outbreak of conflict (11/2020). Post-outbreak rates of anxiety (34%) were three times higher than 2–3 months before. Similarly, rates of depression increased significantly from 16% to 25%. Males experienced greater increases in anxiety, females in depression. Mental health issues have likely worsened further during the ongoing conflict, making mental health support urgently needed.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277259872200006XAnxietyDepressionConflict |
| spellingShingle | Marta Favara Annina Hittmeyer Catherine Porter Saurabh Singhal Tassew Woldehanna Young people, mental health, and civil conflict: Preliminary findings from Ethiopia's Tigray region Psychiatry Research Communications Anxiety Depression Conflict |
| title | Young people, mental health, and civil conflict: Preliminary findings from Ethiopia's Tigray region |
| title_full | Young people, mental health, and civil conflict: Preliminary findings from Ethiopia's Tigray region |
| title_fullStr | Young people, mental health, and civil conflict: Preliminary findings from Ethiopia's Tigray region |
| title_full_unstemmed | Young people, mental health, and civil conflict: Preliminary findings from Ethiopia's Tigray region |
| title_short | Young people, mental health, and civil conflict: Preliminary findings from Ethiopia's Tigray region |
| title_sort | young people mental health and civil conflict preliminary findings from ethiopia s tigray region |
| topic | Anxiety Depression Conflict |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277259872200006X |
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