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Internally displaced persons and their mental health status

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

N. Maruta ,
T. Panko ,
V. Fedchenko  and
O. Semikina
N. Maruta*
Affiliation:
Borderline Psychiatry, “Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Narcology of NAMS of Ukraine” SI, Kharkiv, Ukraine
T. Panko
Affiliation:
Borderline Psychiatry, “Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Narcology of NAMS of Ukraine” SI, Kharkiv, Ukraine
V. Fedchenko
Affiliation:
Borderline Psychiatry, “Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Narcology of NAMS of Ukraine” SI, Kharkiv, Ukraine
O. Semikina
Affiliation:
Borderline Psychiatry, “Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Narcology of NAMS of Ukraine” SI, Kharkiv, Ukraine
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

There are about 1.5 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Ukraine, which requires an assessment of their mental health.

Objectives

To develop a psychoeducational program aimed at informing about the clinical manifestations (markers of symptoms) of mental disorders, the possibilities of preventing their formation and options for action in conditions of the formation or exacerbation of a mental state.

Methods

270 IDPs were examined. Methods: clinical-psychopathological, psychometric, statistical.

Results

Evaluation of the mental state of IDPs with symptoms of mental disorders (risk group (31.92%)) indicates the presence of various emotional disorders that formed individual syndromes – asthenic (41.18%), agrypnic (45.59%), somato-vegetative (30.88%), anxiety-depressive (20, 59%). The risk factors for the development of mental disorders in IDPs were identified - the older age is from 50 to 59 and the average age is from 40 to 49 years; lack of a complete family, lack of work, low level of social employment, lack of satisfactory living conditions, a significant decrease in the level of well-being, the preservation of the significance of factors of mental trauma, the presence of certain prenosological syndromes. The proposed psychoeducational program is built on the principle of thematic seminars with elements of social and psychological training.

Conclusions

The implementation of the program provides a comprehensive impact on the cognitive, emotional, psychophysiological, behavioral and social aspects of personality functioning.

Keywords

Internally displaced personspsychoeducational program
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European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S406
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