Clinical description of children's anxiety during the Gulf War.
Interviews were carried out with 322 children, ages 5 to 16 years, to examine the association of war experience and their anxiety. Body language was used as indicator of anxiety. Girls showed significantly more discrete body movements than boys.
al-Khawaja
J M
JM
Kuwait University.
D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D001143:Arousal; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008877:Middle East; D009633:Nonverbal Communication; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012737:Sex Factors; D014857:Warfare