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		<AUTHOR>CETIN ALKAN</AUTHOR>
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	<YEAR>2003</YEAR>
	<TITLE>PRIMARY MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS AND TREATMENT METHODS IN THE KURDISH COMMUNITY</TITLE>
	<ABSTRACT>
ABSTRACT


The Kurds living under migration conditions examined at the social psychological (Martin van Bruiness,1991) and  psychiatric (Amin and Turner,1996) level. This community  sample  study  was carried  out  to  test  the four  hypothesises   related  to primary mental  health problems   while  Kurdish  immigrants  are migrated  from traumatic  to migration conditions.  Sample  was  occurred from Turkish&amp;Kursdish  and other ethnic  groups  original  come from Turkey  and North West Kurdistan(South East Turkey) living in North London.  Number  of  people  were  50  from 25  and over  age group in questionnaire. 60  people participated   in  questionnaire. It was carried out  in Kurdish&amp;Turkish and  Kurdish community  centres  and also participants own  homes in North London. All questions were  open-ended. 30  questions were  asked  to participants. There were  21 female and  29 male . 6 participants  were  refused  and 4 participants  replies were excluded  from data analysis. The return  rate  therefore  50  participants  for  the questionnaire.

The first  hypothesis  confirmed   that  there  was direct significant  relationships  between formation process  of mental  health  problems and  migration conditions  together with past  traumatic  events. Frequency distributions  of  assessments  related  to these  relationships[Male, Yes : 28(56%), Female, Yes :17(34%)/ Male, No : 2(4%), Female No:2(4%), n= 50)] were supported  to  confirm  H1. H1 was therefore confirmed  and H0(null) was  rejected by  results. Political divisions and approaches  of  Kurds toward  community  centres  which  in increasing   of  mental  health  problems  were  connected  to  social political  relationships   between  Kurds  and  represents(community  centres)  of   Kurdish political groups. Accordingly, H2 confirmed  by   results.  There was  not  evidence   to  rejected  H2.  Opposite  of  this hypothesis (H0) was rejected  by  results. There was evidence comes from previous and findings  of  this  study to reject  H0.  Consequently, after  analysing  and commended  formation  process  of  mental  health  problems   and  psychosocial problems  have  identified  the basis  of relationships  between  past traumatic  events  and  migration  conditions. Also, mental  health problems  raised from  inconsistent  social  political organised  and Formation  process of  mental  health  problems were  not  limited  with migration  conditions.



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