Negative effects of Syria’s earthquake 2023 in Aleppo city

Abstract

Abstract Earthquakes are unexpected and destructive disasters that can cause massive destruction and huge losses of life. Often, the survivors may suffer severe psychological symptoms. With the lack of related studies in the psychological field after the natural disaster that happened in Aleppo city, Syria. So, there must be a concentrated study that focuses on affected people and their feeling after treating them with anti-depressants. In our work, two questionnaires have distributed among 40 individuals that agreed on participating in this study. The questions have focused on the effect of anti-depressants API and Placebo medicines in minimizing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Our results have shown that people who given placebo were less percentages of fear after three months from the first questionnaire. Benefits of taking anti-depressants by time with continuing treatment, which is why placebo succeeded more than anti-depressants in this study.