ArticleJournal of immigrant and minority health2008
The "lost boys" of Sudan: use of health services and functional health outcomes of unaccompanied refugee minors resettled in the U.S.
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- A systematic literature review of reported challenges in health care delivery to migrants and refugees in high-income countries - the 3C model.BMC public health · 2019Pooled it
- What is the Impact of Placement Type on Educational and Health Outcomes of Unaccompanied Refugee Minors? A Systematic Review of the Evidence.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2018Pooled it
- Use of health services among international migrant children - a systematic review.Globalization and health · 2018Pooled it
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Unaccompanied Refugee Minors: Prevalence, Contributing and Protective Factors, and Effective Interventions: A Scoping Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire as a Mental Health Screening Tool for Newly Arrived Pediatric Refugees.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2021Article
- Health care provided to recent asylum-seeking and non-asylum-seeking pediatric patients in 2016 and 2017 at a Swiss tertiary hospital - a retrospective study.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Psychological trauma and access to primary healthcare for people from refugee and asylum-seeker backgrounds: a mixed methods systematic review.International journal of mental health systems · 2020Review
- Long-term mental health in unaccompanied refugee minors: pre- and post-flight predictors.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2019Article
- Refugees and the post-migration environment.BMC medicine · 2018Article
- Healthcare Access for Iraqi Refugee Children in Texas: Persistent Barriers, Potential Solutions, and Policy Implications.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2015Article
- Somatization in refugees: a review.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2014Review
- Development of mental health problems - a follow-up study of unaccompanied refugee minors.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2014Article
- Refugee children: mental health and effective interventions.Current psychiatry reports · 2013Article
- Mental health issues in unaccompanied refugee minors.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2009Article
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Abstract
To assess whether mental health counseling and other health services were associated with functional health outcomes of unaccompanied Sudanese refugee minors in the U.S., this study was a descriptive survey of 304 Sudanese refugee minors in foster care through the U.S. Unaccompanied Refugee Minors Program (URMP). Functional health outcomes included scores of Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ) scales and questions regarding care for symptoms or problems associated with behavioral disorders, i.e. somatization. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was assessed using the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (HTQ). Health services questions derived from the National Health Interview Survey. Minors reported high rates of counseling (45%); however no differences were noted in counseling use by those with PTSD compared with others. Counseling was not associated with health outcomes. The majority (76%) reported seeking medical care for symptoms or problems often associated with behavioral and emotional problems; however such care-seeking was more common among those with PTSD (OR = 2.5, 95% CI = 1.004-6.26). Through the efforts of the URMP, the Sudanese unaccompanied minors received high levels of psychosocial support despite the absence of their biological parents. Those with worse functional health were no more likely than others to have received mental health counseling while being more likely to seek care from any health professional. This was also the case for those with PTSD compared to those without it. In linear regression analyses, reported receipt of mental health counseling did not impact either positively or negatively on the score of any CHQ scale.
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