The contemporary refugee crisis: an overview of mental health challenges

D Silove, P Ventevogel, S Rees - World psychiatry, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
There has been an unprecedented upsurge in the number of refugees worldwide, the
majority being located in low‐income countries with limited resources in mental health care …

The relationship between post-migration stress and psychological disorders in refugees and asylum seekers

SSY Li, BJ Liddell, A Nickerson - Current psychiatry reports, 2016 - Springer
Refugees demonstrate high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other
psychological disorders. The recent increase in forcible displacement internationally …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence of mental ill health, traumas and postmigration stress among refugees from Syria resettled in Sweden after 2011: a population-based survey

P Tinghög, A Malm, C Arwidson, E Sigvardsdotter… - BMJ open, 2017 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To estimate the prevalence of and associations between anxiety, depression,
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), low subjective well-being (SWB), potential traumas …

The mental health of civilians displaced by armed conflict: an ecological model of refugee distress

KE Miller, A Rasmussen - Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences, 2017 - cambridge.org
Early research on the mental health of civilians displaced by armed conflict focused primarily
on the direct effects of exposure to war-related violence and loss. Largely overlooked in this …

Post-migration factors and mental health outcomes in asylum-seeking and refugee populations: a systematic review

C Gleeson, R Frost, L Sherwood… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The present systematic review examined post-migration variables impacting upon mental
health outcomes among asylum-seeking and refugee populations in Europe. It focuses on …

Pre-migration and post-migration factors associated with mental health in humanitarian migrants in Australia and the moderation effect of post-migration stressors …

W Chen, BJ Hall, L Ling, AMN Renzaho - The Lancet Psychiatry, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background The process of becoming a humanitarian migrant is potentially damaging to
mental health. We examined the association between pre-migration and post-migration …

[HTML][HTML] Physical illness in patients with severe mental disorders. I. Prevalence, impact of medications and disparities in health care

M De Hert, CU Correll, J Bobes… - World …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The lifespan of people with severe mental illness (SMI) is shorter compared to the general
population. This excess mortality is mainly due to physical illness. We report prevalence …

A systematic review of factors affecting mental health and well-being of asylum seekers and refugees in Germany

VL Hajak, S Sardana, H Verdeli, S Grimm - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Since the onset of the 2015 European refugee crisis,~ 4. 46 million people
have sought asylum in the European Union, with Germany logging the largest share of all …

Association of torture and other potentially traumatic events with mental health outcomes among populations exposed to mass conflict and displacement: a systematic …

Z Steel, T Chey, D Silove, C Marnane, RA Bryant… - Jama, 2009 - jamanetwork.com
Context Uncertainties continue about the roles that methodological factors and key risk
factors, particularly torture and other potentially traumatic events (PTEs), play in the variation …

Explaining the refugee gap: a longitudinal study on labour market participation of refugees in the Netherlands

L Bakker, J Dagevos, G Engbersen - Journal of Ethnic and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, we examine the existence and development of the 'refugee gap': the difference
in labour market participation rates between refugees and other types of migrants. Using the …