Child Behavior Problems in Kurdistan and Exile

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Child Behavior Problemsin Kurdistan and Exile

• Abdulbaghi Ahmad, Dr Med Sc
• abdulbaghi.ahmad_at_bupinst.uu.se
• Child Psychiatrist/ Director of Studies
• Uppsala University Sweden
• Ass. Professor/ Founding Director
• Child Mental Health, College of Medicine, Dohuk
  University
• Kurdistan Region - Iraq

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Study Design

• Prevalence and Correlates
• Kurdistan and Sweden
• 6 18 years Children Parents
• HUTQ-C PTSS-C Child Interview
• CBCL Genogram Parent Interview

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Subject Characteristics (N
303) Duhok Uppsala N (M/) N
(M/) Age (years) 201 (13.0) 102
(11.6) Girls 101 (50.2) 63 (61.8) Boys 100
(49.8) 39 (38.2) Mother working 10 (5.0) 29
(26.1) Father working 157 (78.1) 95
(93.1) Mother high education 6 (3.0) 59
(57.8) Father high education 25 (12.4) 43
(42.1) Trauma level 201 (24.3) 102
(10.7) p lt 0.01, p lt 0.001, N Number
of observations, M Means
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Correlations Externalizing Internalizin
g Life spent in Sweden -0.05 -0.22 Life
spent in Kurdistan 0.04 0.21 Father
education -0.04 -0.18 Mother
education -0.02 -0.17 Trauma
level 0.12 -0.06 Single parent
family -0.06 0.11 Father working 0.03 -0.1
1 Mother working -0.03 -0.08 Living
standard 0.03 -0.11 Father absent -0.05 0.
11 p lt 0.01, p lt 0.001
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Conclusions

• Higher Internalizing in Kurdistan than Exile
• Essentially Similar Externalizing
• Living in Exile is Healing for Internalizing
• Internalizing Correlates with Environment
• Externalizing Correlates with Personal Factors
• Is Externalizing Genetically Determined?