Young people, mental health, and civil conflict: Preliminary findings from Ethiopia's Tigray region.

The authors use data from 2 calls in Young Lives 2020 phone survey, to investigate the association between civil conflict and young people's mental health in Ethiopia's Tigray region.

They found out:

• Violent conflict broke out on November 4th, 2020, in Ethiopia's Tigray region.
• Young people's mental health significantly worsened after the outbreak of conflict.
• By end-year, 2 in 5 young people were experiencing mental health issues.
• The results call for timely interventions to support vulnerable youth in Tigray.

This article was first published in 2022 in Psychiatry Research Communication.

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