Psychological Distress and Coping Mechanisms among Internally Displaced Returnees in Yaso District, Benishangul Gumuz Regional State
| dc.contributor.advisor | Habtamu, Kassahun(Phd | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gemeda, Mekonnen | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-05T08:36:24Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-18T15:40:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-02-05T08:36:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-18T15:40:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-12 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of psychological distress and coping mechanisms among internally displaced returnees in Yaso district, Benishangul Gumuz Regional State. Descriptive cross-sectional study design was employed. Data were collected using (Kessler-10, Post traumatic stress-Checklist 5(PCL-5) and Brief Coping-28) from 378 participants recruited with simple random sampling techniques. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 20 was used to analyze the data. Descriptive statistics like mean and percentage were used to summarize the characteristics of participants and findings. To look the association between trauma and distress, Pearson correlation and linear regression was also employed. High prevalence of psychological distress (26.4%) was found among internally displaced returnees. In the adjusted regression model, trauma (0.45 (0.37, 0.53) p<0.001 and marital status (1.76, (0.75, 2.78) P=0.001) were found to be significantly and positively associated with psychological distress while sex -2.67(-4.23,-1.11), P=.001 and coping strategies -0.15 (-0.25, -0.04) p=0.005 were negatively associated with psychological distress. Finally the study indicated high adaptive/effective coping mechanism subscales/variables like amalgamated and religion (M=5.59, SD=1.453) and instrumental support (M=4.53, SD=1.36) were the most repeatedly reported respectively. Whereas denial (M=4.82, SD=1.64) and behavioral disengagement (M=4.20, SD=1.28) were the most frequently reported under maladaptive coping mechanism. The major inference of this study reveals that though the returnees are relatively using adaptive coping mechanism; on contrary the prevalence of psychological distress of the returnees is high so rehabilitation works are demanding to minimize further mental health problems. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/24994 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | AAU | en_US |
| dc.subject | : Psychological distress, coping mechanisms, internally displaced persons/returnees. | en_US |
| dc.title | Psychological Distress and Coping Mechanisms among Internally Displaced Returnees in Yaso District, Benishangul Gumuz Regional State | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |