Mental Health of Refugees and Migrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Experienced Discrimination and Daily Stressors

The COVID-19 pandemic is a defining global health crisis of our time. While the impact of COVID-19, including its mental health impact, is increasingly being documented, there remain important gaps regarding the specific consequences of the pandemic on particular population groups, including refugee...

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Autores: Spiritus-Beerden, Eva, Verelst, An, Devlieger, Ines, Langer Primdahl, Nina, Guedes, Fábio Botelho, Chiarenza, Antonio, De Maesschalck, Stephanie, Durbeej, Natalie, Garrido Muñoz de Arenillas, Rocío, Gaspar de Matos, Margarida, Ioannidi, Elisabeth, Murphy, Rebecca, Oulahal, Rachid, Osman, Fatumo, Padilla, Beatriz, Paloma, Virginia, Shehadeh, Amer, Sturm, Gesine, Muijsenbergh, Maria van den, Vasilikou, Katerina, Watters, Charles, Willems, Sara, Skovdal, Morten, Derluyn, Ilse
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/115375
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/115375
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126354
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:refugees
migrants
mental health
discrimination
COVID-19
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Sumario:The COVID-19 pandemic is a defining global health crisis of our time. While the impact of COVID-19, including its mental health impact, is increasingly being documented, there remain important gaps regarding the specific consequences of the pandemic on particular population groups, including refugees and migrants. This study aims to uncover the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of refugees and migrants worldwide, disentangling the possible role of social and daily stressors, i.e., experiences of discrimination and daily living conditions. Descriptive analysis and structural equation modeling were used to analyze the responses of N = 20,742 refugees and migrants on the self-reporting global ApartTogether survey. Survey findings indicated that the mental health of refugees and migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic was significantly impacted, particularly for certain subgroups, (i.e., insecure housing situation and residence status, older respondents, and females) who reported experiencing higher levels of increased discrimination and increases in daily life stressors. There is a need to recognize the detrimental mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on particular refugee and migrant groups and to develop interventions that target their unique needs.

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