Abstract:
This study was conducted to identify the mental symptoms that people who emigrated from Syria have based on some demographic characteristics and to produce a solution proposal. Participants of the study are aged 18 and over who had emigrated from Syria living in Sultangazi, Pendik, Bağcılar, and Kağıthane districts in İstanbul. The study conducted a total of 103 people, 62 of whom were women and 41 of whom were men. The sociodemographic datasheet and the Symptom Check List (SCL-90) scale were applied to the participants during the data collection phase. T-test and one-way variance analysis (one way ANOVA) was performed to obtain the differences between the variables and the scale and sub-dimensions used. As a result of this study, there was no statistical difference between gender, Turkish speaking status, education status, working status, thinking about going back and feeling belonging to the place where they lived, and the SCL-90 sub-dimensions. Age groups, marital status, the status of making their profession, psychological illness, chronic illness, working status, feeling alone, dissatisfaction with where they live, discrimination, and feeling safe as a result of statistical analysis among groups some lower levels of differentiation areobserved.
