Prevalence of mental disorders in young refugees and asylum seekers in European Countries: a systematic review.

The European Union member states received about 385,000 asylum applications from children and adolescents below 18 years in 2015, and 398,000 in 2016. The latest political crises and war have led to an upsurge in refugee movements into European countries, giving rise to a re-evaluation of the epidem...

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Publicado en:European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Vol. 28; no. 10; pp. 1295 - 1311
Autores principales: Kien, Christina, Sommer, Isolde, Faustmann, Anna, Gibson, Lacey, Schneider, Martha, Krczal, Eva, Jank, Robert, Klerings, Irma, Szelag, Monika, Kerschner, Bernd, Brattström, Petter, Gartlehner, Gerald
Formato: research systematic review tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Oct2019
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          Kien, Christina
          Sommer, Isolde
          Faustmann, Anna
          Gibson, Lacey
          Schneider, Martha
          Krczal, Eva
          Jank, Robert
          Klerings, Irma
          Szelag, Monika
          Kerschner, Bernd
          Brattström, Petter
          Gartlehner, Gerald
        affil: Department for Evidence-based Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Danube-University Krems, Dr.-Karl-Dorrek Strasse 30, 3500, Krems an der Donau, Austria
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          Mental Disorders Epidemiology
          Refugees Psychosocial Factors
          Child Health
          Adolescent Health
          Human
          Systematic Review
          Europe
          Infant, Newborn
          Infant
          Child, Preschool
          Child
          Adolescence
          Risk Assessment
          Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
          Depression
          Anxiety Disorders
          Emotions
          Mental Health Services
          Help Seeking Behavior
          Infant, Newborn: birth-1 month
          Infant: 1-23 months
          Child, Preschool: 2-5 years
          Child: 6-12 years
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
      ab: The European Union member states received about 385,000 asylum applications from children and adolescents below 18 years in 2015, and 398,000 in 2016. The latest political crises and war have led to an upsurge in refugee movements into European countries, giving rise to a re-evaluation of the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders and mental health problems among young refugees and asylum seekers. We systematically searched five electronic databases and reference lists of pertinent review articles. We then screened the results of forward citation tracking of key articles for relevant studies in the field for the period from January 1990 to October 2017. We dually reviewed citations and assessed risk of bias. We reported the results narratively, as meta-analyses were impeded due to high heterogeneity. We included 47 studies covered in 53 articles. Overall, the point prevalence of the investigated psychiatric disorders and mental health problems varied widely among studies (presenting interquartile ranges): for posttraumatic stress disorder between 19.0 and 52.7%, for depression between 10.3 and 32.8%, for anxiety disorders between 8.7 and 31.6%, and for emotional and behavioural problems between 19.8 and 35.0%. The highly heterogeneous evidence base could be improved by international, methodologically comparable studies with sufficiently large sample sizes drawn randomly among specific refugee populations. The prevalence estimates suggest, nevertheless, that specialized mental health care services for the most vulnerable refugee and asylum-seeking populations are needed. Registration: The systematic review protocol was registered in PROSPERO on October 19th, 2017 with the number: CRD42017080039 and is available from: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=80039
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