Mental health of internally displaced preschool children: a cross-sectional study conducted in Bogotá, Colombia

Purpose Ongoing armed conflicts, like the one in Colombia, have forcibly displaced millions of people including many young children. This study aimed to assess the mental health of internally displaced preschoolers in Bogotá Colombia and to identify correlates of mental health in these children. Met...

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Published in:Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 2013-06, Vol.48 (6), p.917-926
Main Authors: Flink, Ilse J. E., Restrepo, María H., Blanco, Diana P., Ortegon, Mónica M., Enriquez, Carolina L., Beirens, Tinneke M. J., Raat, Hein
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Analysis of Variance
Biological and medical sciences
Caregivers - psychology
Checklist - statistics & numerical data
Child & adolescent mental health
Child Behavior Disorders - epidemiology
Child Behavior Disorders - psychology
Child clinical studies
Child, Preschool
Children's furniture
Colombia - epidemiology
Consent
Cross-Sectional Studies
Displaced persons
Emigration and Immigration - statistics & numerical data
Epidemiology
Female
Health sciences
Humans
Infant
International law
Kindergarten
Logistic Models
Male
Medical sciences
Medical students
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Mental Disorders - epidemiology
Mental Disorders - psychology
Mental health
Mental Health - statistics & numerical data
Miscellaneous
Neighborhoods
Original Paper
Population
Post traumatic stress disorder
Preschool children
Psychiatry
Psychological aspects
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Public health
Questionnaires
Residence Characteristics
Socioeconomic Factors
Trauma
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Summary:Purpose Ongoing armed conflicts, like the one in Colombia, have forcibly displaced millions of people including many young children. This study aimed to assess the mental health of internally displaced preschoolers in Bogotá Colombia and to identify correlates of mental health in these children. Methods Cross-sectional study conducted among 279 children attending four kindergartens in a deprived neighbourhood in Bogotá. Child mental health was assessed with the Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL) 1.5–5 years, a parent-report. Univariate analyses and multivariate logistic regressions were performed to assess the association between displacement and child mental health and to identify correlates of mental health in displaced children. Results Displaced children ( n  = 90) more often met borderline cut-off scores for the CBCL scales than non-displaced children ( n  = 189) (e.g. total problems 46.7 vs. 22.8 %; p  
ISSN:0933-7954
1433-9285
DOI:10.1007/s00127-012-0611-9