War And Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Annotated Bibliography Student’s Name: Institution Affiliation: Course: Date: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Shaar, K. (2013). Post-traumatic stress disorder in adolescents in Lebanon as wars gained in ferocity: A systematic review. Journal of public health research. US National library medicine, 2(2) 1- 17 The authors present a systematic review of the published studies that documented the prevalence of PTSD in the adolescent population in Lebanon. The article presents an investigation on the increase in the rate of PTSD during the intensification of war in Lebanon. The article discusses the statistics gathered from Lebanon, which had a vicious civil war for decades and uses high-intensity warfare. A study was conducted on the areas to investigate the total percentage of adolescent’s population in Lebanon that suffered from war and post-traumatic stress disorder. The article is concluded with an estimate of 5965 adolescents who were exposed to the Lebanon civil war who had specifically suffered post-traumatic stress disorder. This is a supportive source for getting an overview of PTSD prevalence rate and their determinant in adolescents in Lebanon civil war episodes. However, the article uses cross-sectional design in their studies that prohibits the understanding of the temporal progression of the relationship between variables that are explanatory and PTSD. (McMullen, J, Paul., R, Justin, E, John, R, & Harry (2012). Screening for traumatic exposure and psychological distress among war-affected adolescents in post-conflict northern Uganda. Journal of Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric ...