Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Resilience and vulnerability among refugee children of traumatized and non-traumatized parents. | Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health BioMed Central Research Open Access Resilience and vulnerability among refugee children of traumatized and non-traumatized parents Atia Daud 1 Britt af Klinteberg1 2 3 and Per-Anders Rydelius1 Address 1Karolinska Institutet Dept. of Woman and Child Health Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Unit Astrid Lindgren s Children s Hospital Stockholm Sweden 2Stockholm University Dept. of Psychology section for Biological psychology Stockholm Sweden and 3Stockholm University Karolinska Institutet Centre for Health Equity Studies Stockholm Sweden Email Atia Daud - Britt af Klinteberg - bkg@ Per-Anders Rydelius - Corresponding author Published 28 March 2008 Received 9 October 2007 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2008 2 7 doi 1753-2000-2-7 Accepted 28 March 2008 This article is available from http content 2 1 7 2008 Daud et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background The aim of the study was to explore resilience among refugee children whose parents had been traumatized and were suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD . Methods The study comprised 80 refugee children 40 boys and 40 girls age range 6-17 yrs divided into two groups. The test group consisted of 40 refugee children whose parents had been tortured in Iraq before coming to Sweden. In accordance with DSM-IV criteria these children were further divided in two sub-groups those who were assessed as having PTSD-related symptoms n 31 and those who did not have PTSD-related symptoms n 9 . The comparison group consisted of 40 children from Egypt Syria and Morocco whose parents had not been tortured. .
