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Mental Health Problems of Displaced War-Affected Adolescents in Northern Uganda: Patterns of Agreement Between Self and Caregiver Assessment |
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| Authors: | Judith K Bass Christine Ayash Theresa S Betancourt Emily E Haroz Helen Verdeli Richard Neugebauer Laura K Murray Paul A Bolton |
| Institution: | 1. Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA 2. Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA 3. Department of Global Health and Population, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA 4. Department of Clinical and Counseling Psychology, Columbia University Teachers College, New York, NY, USA 5. Division of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, New York State Psychiatric Institute and GH Sergievsky Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA 6. Departments of Mental Health and International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA |
| Abstract: | We evaluate caregiver and adolescent concordance on adolescent mental health severity in war-affected Northern Uganda. Data were collected from 628 caregiver-adolescent dyads in two internally displaced persons’ camps. Internalizing and externalizing-type mental health problems were assessed using locally-developed scales. To evaluate concordance, mean caregiver and adolescent scores on each scale were compared using Pearson’s correlation coefficients and within-pair-differences were compared by subtracting caregiver from adolescent responses and using t tests to assess whether these differed from 0. Mental heath problem type and youth/caregiver gender and age were investigated as potential indicators of group differences. Adolescents consistently rated their problems as more severe for internalizing problems and less severe for externalizing problems compared with caregivers. Mothers’ reports exhibited better concordance for internalizing problems while fathers’ and other caregivers’ exhibited better concordance of externalizing problems. Results suggest researchers and program implementers need to be aware of respondent differences when planning studies and services. |
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