Psychological Distress in Afghan Refugees: A Mixed-Method Systematic Review

Mental health problems disproportionately affect Afghan refugees and asylum seekers who continue to seek international protection with prolonged exposure to war. We performed a systematic review aimed at synthesizing peer-reviewed literature pertaining to mental health problems among Afghans resettl...

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Published in:Journal of immigrant and minority health 2014-12, Vol.16 (6), p.1247-1261
Main Authors: Alemi, Qais, James, Sigrid, Cruz, Romalene, Zepeda, Veronica, Racadio, Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Afghan Campaign 2001
Afghanistan - ethnology
Anxiety
Anxiety Disorders
Comparative Law
Confounding (Statistics)
Content analysis
Coping
Coping strategies
Depression (Psychology)
Displaced persons
Emotional Response
Focus Groups
Health problems
Health research
Help Seeking
Help seeking behavior
Humans
Industrialized nations
Information Seeking
International & Foreign Law
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Mental depression
Mental disorders
Mental health
Meta Analysis
Migrants
Migration
Mixed methods research
Noncitizens
ORIGINAL PAPER
Physical Health
Political asylum
Post traumatic stress disorder
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Private International Law
Psychological distress
Psychological Patterns
Public Health
Qualitative research
Quantitative analysis
Quantitative research
Refugees
Refugees - psychology
Refugees - statistics & numerical data
Research design
Search Strategies
Social Services
Sociology
Stress, Psychological - epidemiology
Stress, Psychological - etiology
Studies
Subjective experiences
Subjectivity
Systematic review
Trauma
War
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