Abstract:
This study aimed to investigate the relationship between post-traumatic stress disorder and quality of life of Darfur students attending secondary schools in Sharq Al-Neel Locality, Central Sector (who have been subjected to acceleration programme at basic school level). Descriptive correlative method was used to study the relationship between post traumatic stress disorder and quality of life. The study population consisted of 412 (males and females) from Darfur students in 25 secondary schools. A sample of 101 of those students was selected using purposive sampling technique. SPSS was administered to analyze the collected data using the following tools and tests: descriptive statistics tables, the arithmetic mean, standard deviation, Pearson correlation coefficient, T-test for one sample, Alpha Chronbach and Spearman correlation coefficients and One Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The most important results were as follows: There is an inverse correlation between post traumatic stress disorder and all the questionnaire dimensions except those of friends and entity. There were statistically significant differences attributable to gender (male/female) at the level of post-traumatic stress disorder, whereas there were no significant differences attributable to the place of residence. There was no correlation at the level of post-traumatic stress disorder before and after admittance to the aid camps. The important recommendations made by the study are raising the quality of life of Darfur students, and the necessity of providing specialized counselors to train the students, specially females, in areas of how to deal with PTSD, and how to support their colleagues in school to overcome PTSD. Two areas have been suggested for further studies: relationship between (PTSD) and quality of life of university students, and relationship between (PTSD) and quality of life of Darfur states.