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Psychological distress among Iranian children and adolescents following a 12-day armed conflict: a cross-sectional study

PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS FOLLOWING THE 12-DAY ARMED CONFLICT IN IRANIAN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY

Among 219 children and adolescents seeking psychiatric care after the conflict, depression and anxiety levels increased significantly with age.

The aim was to assess symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress in children and adolescents exposed to a 12-day armed conflict and to examine their associations with selected demographic and war-related characteristics. The cross-sectional study, conducted at Imam Hossein Hospital in Tehran, enrolled 219 children and adolescents aged 7 to 18 years in July and August 2026. Symptoms were measured using the 21-item DASS-Y, and analyses used the Mann–Whitney, Kruskal–Wallis, and Spearman tests. The median age of the sample was 14 years, and 58% were male. Reported war-related stressors were explosions (49.8%), war news (19.2%), and family concerns (12.3%), while 18.7% reported no stress. Reported coping or protection categories were talking with family (38.8%), no protection (34.2%), games (14.6%), sleep (6.4%), films (4.6%), and eating (1.4%). Comparisons across age groups showed higher mean ranks for depression (p = 0.008) and anxiety (p = 0.020) among older participants, with no significant difference in stress (p = 0.41); depression also differed according to the reported stressor (p = 0.01). The authors emphasize that the post-conflict symptom burden was substantial in this psychiatric care sample, but that the cross-sectional design demonstrates associations rather than causality and that the findings should not be generalized to all Iranian young people.

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