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 (...
The impact of risk and protective factors on mental health and well-being-Austrian adolescents and migrant adolescents from war-affected countriesAdolescentsMental healthMigration, Refugeeslt;pgt;lt;stronggt;Backgroundlt;/stronggt;: young persons are most strongly affected by displacement through ...
Widening Access to Quality Education for Syrian Refugees: The Role of Private and NGO Sectors in Lebanon As the Syrian crisis enters the fourth year, there is a timely need to reflect on the wider implications on Lebanon. The influx of over a million and half ... Shuayb,Makkouk,N Tuttunj...
Although the world military security situation has remained generally stable, but, the number of unstable factors affecting the world military security situation has increased significantly, adding uncertainty increases to the international security, major power relations and regional situations, and posing ...
Abstract Syndemics approaches explore the convergence of psychosocial factors that elevate HIV vulnerabilities. Less research has explored syndemics among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons in contexts where criminalization has downstream impacts on LGBT discrimination, such as Jamaica. ...
An understanding of how the Burmese refugees experienced this period, and how they achieved psychological well-being despite the challenges, may help health services personnel design better service models that not only prevent further distress but also enhance protective factors in support of Burmese ...
Social Capital Among Bhutanese Refugees: Protective Factors and Enabling Characteristics in Health Care UtilizationEunyoung Jang, MSW
An understanding of how the Burmese refugees experienced this period, and how they achieved psychological well-being despite the challenges, may help health services personnel design better service models that not only prevent further distress but also enhance protective factors in support of Burmese ...
and factor 5 relates to spiritual beliefs. Despite the CD-RISC not having been developed specifically on refugees, it had been used in various cross-cultural studies [6,62] as well as assessed on refugees [12]. For this study, Cronbach’s alpha for the five factors were 0.88 for factor ...
Twenty-three in-depth interviews were conducted with refugees and international humanitarian actors and subsequently analyzed using inductive and deductive thematic analysis. Ten key protective factors are presented, operating at the individual, interpersonal, and community levels. These factors encompass ...