RESUMO
This study was carried out on 90 children attendants of a private school which accommodated children coming from Kuwait. 43 of them were never had been in Kuwait, 17 children were Kuwaiti living in Kuwait and 30 children were non-Kuwaiti living in Kuwait. They were all tested for the manifestations of depression using the depressive scale [D] for children adopted for the Egyptian children from BDI [Beck Depressive Inventory]. The inventory covers twenty-seven symptoms which are divided into Depressive symptoms gpl, Vegetative symptoms gpII and Behavioral symptoms gpIII. A questionnaire was sent to parents from 2nd to 5th grade, no reference to the Gulf war was mentioned. All children were examined to ensure freedom from any physical illness or handicapness. All samples were treated collectively to see the correlation of depressive score to age and sex of sample as well as the highest depressive manifestations where we found: 1] The highest mean of depressive score was that of the third group [non-Kuwaiti living in Kuwait] but this was insignificant. 2] The mean score of depression was higher in boys of second and third group [i.e. Kuwaiti and non-Kuwaiti living in Kuwait, it was insignificant]. 3] Their was a negative correlation between the age and depressive score of boys of the studied sample [P < 0.05]. 4] The highest depressive manifestations for all children were found in depressive group [Group l with depressive symptoms], this was highly significant [P<0.001]