Identifying Priorities for Mental Health Interventions in War-Affected Youth: A Longitudinal Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

War-affected youth often suffer from multiple co-occurring mental health problems. These youth often live in low-resource settings where it may be infeasible to provide mental health services that simultaneously address all of these co-occurring mental health issues. It is therefore important to identify the areas where targeted interventions would do the most good.

Methods

This analysis uses observational data from 3 waves of a longitudinal study on mental health in a sample of 529 war-affected youth (24.2% female; ages 10-17 at T1, 2002) in Sierra Leone. We regressed 4 mental health outcomes at T3 (2008) on internalizing (depression/anxiety) and externalizing (hostility/aggression) problems and prosocial attitudes/behaviors and community variables at T2 (2004) c

SUBMITTER: Betancourt TS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8352079 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature