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Psychiatric disorders among children living in orphanages - experience from Kashmir

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

Y. Rather
Y. Rather*
Affiliation:
Psychiatry, Govt Psychiatry Disease Hospital, Srinagar, India

Abstract

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Introduction

In the conflict torn developing countries, where adoption and foster care are little practised, orphanages remain one of the few means of survival of inumerable orphans. Critical research, however, has potrayed orphanages as a breeding ground for psychopathology.

Objectives

This study was taken up to examine this opinion.

Methods

An orphanage for girls in Srinagar was surveyed by Psychiatrists, and using DSM IV guidelines screened children were evaluated for psychopathology.

Results

Children were in the age group of 5–12 yrs. PTSD was the commonest psychiatric disorders (40.62%), easily attributable to the prevailing mass trauma state of almost two decades. Next commonest diagnoses were MDD (25%) and conversion disorder (12.5%).

Conclusions

A high psychopathology in orphanages could be an important guide for policy makers to plan for better rehabilitation and social reintegration of orphans.

Type
P02-484
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 26 , Issue S2: Abstracts of the 19th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2011 , pp. 1080
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2011
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