Daily stressors, trauma exposure, and mental health among stateless Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

Riley, Andrew F; Varner, Andrea; Ventevogel, Peter; Hasan, M. M. Taimur; Welton‐Mitchell, Courtney

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“…Lebanon, a small country of 4.5 million persons, now accommodates as many Syrian refugees as the whole of Europe. The wars in the Middle East also tend to overshadow lesser known refugee crises around the world, for example in West Papua, Myanmar and Western Sahara.…”

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The contemporary refugee crisis: an overview of mental health challenges

2017

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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. This paper considers contemporary issues in the refugee mental health field, including developments in research, conceptual models, social and psychological interventions, and policy. Prevalence data yielded by cross-sectional epidemiological studies do not allow a clear distinction to be made between situational forms of distress and frank mental disorder, a shortcoming that may be addressed by longitudinal studies. An evolving ecological model of research focuses on the dynamic inter-relationship of past traumatic experiences, ongoing daily stressors and the background disruptions of core psychosocial systems, the scope extending beyond the individual to the conjugal couple and the family. Although brief, structured psychotherapies administered by lay counsellors have been shown to be effective in the short term for a range of traumatic stress responses, questions remain whether these interventions can be sustained in low-resource settings and whether they meet the needs of complex cases. In the ideal circumstance, a comprehensive array of programs should be provided, including social and psychotherapeutic interventions, generic mental health services, rehabilitation, and special programs for vulnerable groups. Sustainability of services, ensuring best practice, evidence-based approaches, and promoting equity of access must remain the goals of future developments, a daunting challenge given that most refugees reside in settings where skills and resources in mental health care are in shortest supply.

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“…Studies with adult refugees living in camps indicate prevalence rates between 30% and 55% for PTSD (Neuner et al, 2004;Riley, Varner, Ventevogel, Taimur Hasan, & Welton-Mitchell, 2017;Tekin et al, 2016) and between 10% and 89% for other mental health problems (de Jong, Scholte, Koeter, & Hart, 2000;Riley et al, 2017;Tekin et al, 2016).…”

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Prevalence and co-existence of morbidity of posttraumatic stress and functional impairment among Burundian refugee children and their parents

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Kyaruzi

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European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Background: Although the family constitutes the prime source of risk and resilience for the well-being of children growing up in adverse conditions, the mental health of children living in refugee camps has rarely been investigated in conjunction with their parents' mental health. Objectives: To examine the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental health problems among Burundian refugee children and their parents living in Tanzanian refugee camps and to identify patterns of comorbidity among children and their parents based on PTSD symptom levels and functional impairment. Methods: We recruited a representative sample of 230 children aged 7-15 years and both of their parents (n = 690) and conducted separate structured clinical interviews. Latent Class Analysis was applied to identify patterns of comorbidity. Results: Children and parents were exposed to multiple traumatic event types. In total, 5.7% of children fulfilled DSM-5 criteria for PTSD in the past month and 10.9% reported enhanced levels of other mental health problems. 42.6% indicated clinically significant functional impairment due to PTSD symptoms. PTSD prevalence was higher among mothers (32.6%) and fathers (29.1%). Latent Class Analysis (LCA) revealed a familial accumulation of PTSD symptoms as children with high symptom levels and impairment were likely to live in families with two traumatized parents. Conclusions: Although the number of children who need support for trauma-related mental health problems was relatively low, taking into account parental trauma could aid to identify at-risk children with elevated PTSD symptom levels and impairment even in the face of existing barriers to mental health care access for children in refugee camp settings (e.g. lack of targeted services, prioritization of managing daily stressors).

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“…Moreover, CFA results suggest that the scale used can be considered psychometrically valid. Additionally, as noted by Riley et al (2017), the external validity of scales developed in one population often overlaps when these measures are used in other populations. Nevertheless, our results should be interpreted carefully.…”

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Emotional Connectedness to Nature Is Meaningfully Related to Modernization. Evidence From the Meru of Kenya

Marczak

Sorokowski

2018

Front. Psychol.

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The aim of this study was to investigate an affective relationship with the natural environment in a non-western society and to determine its links with modernization. Emotional connectedness to nature, a significant predictor of nature-protective behavior, was assessed in a sample of 99 members of the Meru people of Kenya, recruited in places supposedly varying regarding their level of modernization: small market towns, farming villages, and a remote pastoralist settlement in the bush. The participants answered questions concerning their level of emotional affinity toward the natural environment and their lifestyle. The results show that feelings toward the natural environment in the studied population were, in general, positive. Such findings support the universality of the Biophilia hypothesis and are promising in the light of extant literature on the links between connectedness to nature and concern for the natural environment. Surprisingly we also found that a more traditional lifestyle was negatively related to emotional connectedness to nature. These findings suggest that contact with nature under conditions of direct dependence on the natural environment may have a different influence on people’s feelings toward nature than in the west. Contrary to the common view, we conclude that the impact of modernization on non-western people’s affective relationship with nature might have been unduly demonized.

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Daily stressors, trauma exposure, and mental health among stateless Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

Cited by 214 publications

References 51 publications

The contemporary refugee crisis: an overview of mental health challenges

The contemporary refugee crisis: an overview of mental health challenges

Prevalence and co-existence of morbidity of posttraumatic stress and functional impairment among Burundian refugee children and their parents

Emotional Connectedness to Nature Is Meaningfully Related to Modernization. Evidence From the Meru of Kenya

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