title: Psychiatric disorders among adolescent Jordanian returnees from Kuwait during the 1991 Gulf War.
abstract: Adolescent Jordanian returnees from Kuwait during the 1991 Gulf War were expected to have elevated rates of psychiatric disorders, therefore their mental health status was examined. We evaluated 1376 newly enrolled students in two public universities in northern Jordan using an Arabic translation of the self-administered General Health Questionnaire. The overall rate of psychiatric disorders among the study sample was 23.3%; the rate among adolescent returnees (30.8%) was significantly higher than among other adolescents (22.4%). Although psychiatric disorders were generally common among Jordanian adolescents, the exposure of Jordanian children in Kuwait to the Gulf War was still detrimental to their mental health status as adolescents.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
authors.forename: H Y
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Jaddou
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D047830:Gulf War; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007597:Jordan / Q000453:epidemiology; D007730:Kuwait; D008016:Life Change Events; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D008603:Mental Health; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011159:Population Surveillance; D015995:Prevalence; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012036:Refugees / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012307:Risk Factors; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D017678:Sex Distribution; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities