Journal article
A systematic review of protective and promotive factors in refugee mental health
A Nickerson, V Mai, D Keegan, C Willoughby, K Humphreys, JJY Im, S Sundram, N Procter, ZE Seidler, F Scharpf, BJ Liddell
Nature Mental Health | SPRINGERNATURE | Published : 2024
Abstract
There are currently over 117 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, and approximately 45 million of these are refugees and asylum-seekers. Despite exposure to substantial adversity, many refugees do not develop clinically significant psychopathology. There is a need to understand factors that are associated with good mental health in refugees to inform policy-makers and practitioners working with refugees. Here we aim to synthesize research on factors that are protective (associated with lower negative mental health outcomes) or promotive (associated with higher positive mental health outcomes) among adult refugees living in high-income countries (HICs) and lower-and-middle-income coun..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Social Policy Group. A.N. is supported by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Leadership Investigator Grant (APP2018204). Z.E.S. was supported by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leader Grant (2008170). The funders had no role in study design, collection, analysis or interpretation of the data, writing of the manuscript, or the decision to submit the paper for publication. We thank M. O'Brien, the Academic Engagement Librarian at UNSW, for her contribution to the search strategy.