Basic Information

	Registered On	30/08/2016
	Status	Data collection finished
	Scope	Refugee Response Plan
	Funded	Yes
	Sampling Type	Purposive
	Purpose	To study the long-term psychological impacts of living in refugee camps on the social, emotional, and cognitive development of children between the ages of five and twelve To study whether integration from refugee camps into non-camp communities mitigates these psychological impacts
	Concept Note	Download
	Methodology Description	The approach utilized is the psychological analysis of children’s drawings utilizing literature on the assessment of human figure and free form drawings. This method was chosen as a non-invasive and unbiased measurement tool for studying social, emotional, and cognitive health. Participants are asked to perform two tasks. First, the participant is asked to “Draw a picture of yourself.” Second, the participant is asked to “Draw a picture of whatever you feel like.” Utilizing the literature on the psychological analysis of children’s drawings, attributes within human figure drawings and free form drawings (Emotional Features, Integration Level, General Harmony) correlating with developmental items and emotional indicators will be observed. An additional questionnaire is filled out gathering basic socio-demographic and familial measures (Age, Gender, City of Origin in Syria, Date of Arrival in Jordan, Family Size, Number of Brothers, Number of Sisters, Father’s Occupation before the crisis) Through Nearest-Neighbor Matching, children within the refugee camps similar in background to children within non-camp communities are compared on the basis of mental and psychological health. Through collaboration with certain organizations, this assessment was performed within classroom and community center settings in the districts shown below with 30 to 50 children participating in each session. As well, during reregistration, children of families waiting to be reregistered where asked if they’d be able to participate in the exercise.
	Data Collection Start Date	1 August 2016
	Data Collection End Date	15 August 2016