title: Psychiatric symptoms and disorders among Yazidi children and adolescents immediately after forced migration following ISIS attacks.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The aim of the present study was to evaluate psychiatric problems and disorders among Yazidi Kurd refugee children and adolescents, who were assessed immediately after their forced migration following life-threatening attacks by ISIS terrorists.
  
  
  METHODS
  We retrospectively analyzed the psychiatric assessments of 38 Yazidi children and adolescents (age 2-18, mean 12 years, m:f = 16:22), which were performed upon their arrival at the refugee camp.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All children and adolescents exhibited psychiatric problems and disorders, 50 % had one, and 50 % had more than one. The most relevant problems were disturbed sleeping (71 % of children), followed by depression (36.8 %), conversion disorders (28.9 %), adjustment (21.8 %), acute (18.4 %) and posttraumatic stress (PTSD, 10.5 %) disorders, and non-organic enuresis (18.4 %).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our study confirms the results of previous studies, asserting that refugee children and adolescents do not just suffer from PTSD but from various other problems that are already present in the first days of resettlement. Children and adolescents living in refugee camps urgently need psychosocial support.
authors.affiliation: Pendik Training and Research Hospital, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical School of Marmara University, Fevzi Cakmak Mahallesi Mimar Sinan Caddesi No. 41, Üst Kaynarca, Pendik, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Veysi
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ceri
authors.affiliation: Outpatient Clinic of Transcultural Psychiatry and Migration Induced Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Zeliha
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Özlü-Erkilic
authors.affiliation: Mazhar Osman Training and Research Hospital for Psychiatry and Neurology, Zuhuratbaba Mah.Dr.Tevfik Sağlam Cad. No:25/2, 34147, Bakırköy/İstanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ürün
authors.initials: Ü
authors.lastname: Özer
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Gazi Yasargil Education and Research Hospital of Diyarbakir, Üçkuyu Mh, 21010, Kayapınar/Diyarbakır, Turkey.
authors.forename: Murat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yalcin
authors.affiliation: Outpatient Clinic of Transcultural Psychiatry and Migration Induced Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Popow
authors.affiliation: Outpatient Clinic of Transcultural Psychiatry and Migration Induced Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria. tuerkan.akkaya-kalayci@meduniwien.ac.at.
authors.forename: Türkan
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Akkaya-Kalayci
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015897:Comorbidity; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007493:Iraq; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D010552:Personality Assessment; D012036:Refugees / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013593:Syria; D023481:Terrorism / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
keywords: Children and adolescents; Mental health; Psychiatric symptoms and disorders; Refugees; Yazidis