Quality of life of Syrian refugees living in camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

The current study explores the perceived quality of life of Syrian refugees who have entered the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Two hundred and seventy participants residing in refugee camps in the Erbil region in Kurdistan completed the WHOQOL-BREF, which measures Quality of Life (QOL) within four domai...

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Published inPeerJ (San Francisco, CA) Vol. 2; p. e670
Main Authors Aziz, Izaddin A, Hutchinson, Claire V, Maltby, John
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States PeerJ. Ltd 11.11.2014
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Subjects
African refugees
Education
Global Health
Information management
Medical research
Mental disorders
Mental health
Physical health
Population
Psychiatry and Psychology
Psychological health
Public Health
Quality of life
Quantitative psychology
Refugee camps
Refugees
Registration
Researchers
Social networks
Social sciences
Studies
Syria
Syrian refugees
Trends
Syria
Iraq
Psychological health
Refugees
Physical health
Syria
Quality of life
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Summary:The current study explores the perceived quality of life of Syrian refugees who have entered the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Two hundred and seventy participants residing in refugee camps in the Erbil region in Kurdistan completed the WHOQOL-BREF, which measures Quality of Life (QOL) within four domains; physical, psychological, social relationships and environment. Syrian refugees in Kurdistan scored significantly lower for general population norms on physical health, psychological and environment QOL, and score significantly lower for physical health and psychological QOL for refugees in the Gaza strip. However, respondents in the current sample scored significantly higher on environment QOL compared to refugees in the Gaza strip, and significantly higher on all the QOL domains than those reported for refugees in West Africa. Finally, Syrian refugees in Kurdistan scored significantly higher than general population norms for social relationships QOL. The current findings provide the first report of QOL domain scores among Syrian refugees in the Kurdistan camps and suggest that social relationships and environmental QOL circumstances are relatively satisfactory, and that further investigation might be focused on physical and psychological QOL.
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ISSN:2167-8359
2167-8359
DOI:10.7717/peerj.670