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Understanding and improving the mental health of refugees and asylum‐seekers: Reflections from the closing panel of the 2024 International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Annual Meeting

open access: yesJournal of Traumatic Stress, EarlyView.
Abstract Forcible displacement due to war and persecution has reached unprecedented heights across the globe. The mental health impact of trauma and displacement on refugee communities is profound. Although there are several evidence‐based therapies that are efficacious in reducing symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression in refugees ...
Angela Nickerson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Refugee-led social protection: reconceiving refugee assistance

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2018
The help and assistance that refugees offer each other is central to the lives of many displaced people. Recognising this allows support for displaced people to be reconceived in more sustaining and empowering ways.
Evan Easton-Calabria, Kate Pincock
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Connected Learning as Collaboration and Psychosocial Support: A Critical Reflection on a Bridging Programme for Refugees in Uganda

open access: yesJournal of Interactive Media in Education
Uganda currently hosts approximately 1.7 million refugees (93% fully registered refugees, 3% asylum seekers and 4% stateless persons), the most in sub-Saharan Africa. Most refugees come from South Sudan (57%), Democratic Republic of Congo (32%), Burundi (
Andie Reynolds   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fair and accurate? Migrant and refugee young people, crime and the media [PDF]

open access: yes
The public perception of young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds is often associated with crime or offending behaviour. Unbalanced media stories sometimes reinforce these stereotypes. Executive summary This paper aims to gain a more

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Differences in Parkinson's Disease Populations: Teaching Hospitals Versus Other Settings and Implications for Clinical Trials

open access: yesMovement Disorders, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Parkinson disease (PD) disease‐modifying therapy (DMT) trials generally recruit individuals from teaching hospitals. Whether these participants represent the broader PD population is unclear. Objective The objective was to compare individuals with PD seen by neurologists in teaching hospitals early in their disease—a proxy for DMT ...
Priti Gros   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Childbirth in South Sudan: Preferences, practices, and perceptions in the Kapoetas

open access: yesSouth Sudan Medical Journal, 2016
Background: Focus group discussions (FGDs) were designed to better understand the community’s views and preferences around maternity care to design a communications campaign to increase facility deliveries and skilled attendance at birth in the three ...
Heather M. Buesseler, James Yugi
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Asylum Seekers of the Syrian Conflict: procedures and patterns of settlement in Germany

open access: yes, 2019
This paper reports the procedures of asylum and patterns of settlement of asylum seekers in Germany, with special focus on the asylum seekers of the Syrian conflict.
Seethaler-Wari, S.
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The relationship of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) to sexual-risk behavior among refugee women in Botswana: The mediating role of depression [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
THE RELATIONSHIP OF SEXUAL AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE (SGBV) TO SEXUAL RISK BEHAVIORS AMONG REFUGEE WOMEN IN BOTSWANA: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF DEPRESSIONJohannes John-Langba, Ph.D., M.P.H.University of Pittsburgh, 2004This study investigated the ...
John-Langba, Johannes
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Individual Determinants of Hypothetical Bias in Charitable Giving

open access: yesNonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What people answer in surveys is not necessarily what they would do in reality. In a survey experiment administered to 1650 respondents in the United States, I show participants the profile of a fictional charity operating refugee camps. Participants tend to be more generous toward the charity when asked to make a hypothetical future donation ...
Joannie Tremblay‐Boire
wiley   +1 more source

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