Psychological Symptom Profiles and Hair Cortisol Levels Among Halabja Kurdish Trauma Survivors Three Decades Post-Exposure

This data set contains anonymized psychological and biological information collected in 2023 from 209 survivors of the 1988 Halabja chemical assault in Iraq's Kurdistan Region. Trauma-related psychopathology was assessed with valid and culturally relevant psychometric tools (PCL-5, HSCL-25, PHQ-15, PSS-14, and War & Adversity Checklist) and biological indicators of stress (hair cortisol/cortisone). Data were collected by standardized Sorani Kurdish interviews in collaboration with hair sampling.