ArticleJournal of immigrant and minority health2014
Physical and mental health status of Iraqi refugees resettled in the United States.
Article in Journal of immigrant and minority health, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
67 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Depression and Anxiety Among Arab Individuals in the United States: A Meta-analysis.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2025Pooled it
- Human rights violations are associated with forcibly displaced population's mental health-a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- A systematic review of the burden of hypertension, access to services and patient views of hypertension in humanitarian crisis settings.BMJ global health · 2020Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Depression Amongst Iraqi Refugees Located in Western Countries.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2015Pooled it
- Delivering a family-based child mental health promotion program among two resettled refugee communities during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned in a hybrid type II implementation-effectiveness randomized controlled trial.American journal of community psychology · 2026Trial
- Randomized Controlled Trial of a Multilevel Intervention to Address Social Determinants of Refugee Mental Health.American journal of community psychology · 2020Trial
- Healthcare Services Use and Satisfaction Among Iraqi and Syrian Refugees in San Diego: A Qualitative Study.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2026Article
- New Checkbox, Now What? A Scoping Review to Guide Health Research among Middle Eastern and North African Communities.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Mental health impact of intragroup vs. intergroup wartime violence.PNAS nexus · 2026Article
- Social support, social networks, and mental health of six refugee subgroups in Arizona: Findings from a pilot study.PLOS mental health · 2026Article
- Investigating The Impact of Syrian Conflict On Women's Education, Mental Health, and Rights: a Cross-Sectional Study.BMC women's health · 2025Article
- Mental Health Challenges and Barriers to Care Among Arab Refugees: A Scoping Review of US and Canadian Studies.PRiMER (Leawood, Kan.) · 2025Article
- Prevalence and predictors of depression, anxiety, and stress among refugees in Egypt.The Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association · 2024Article
- The Health of a Migrant Population: A Phenomenological Study of the Experience of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in a Multicultural Context.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Article
- Article
- Experiences of American Health Departments, Health Systems, and Community Organizations in COVID-19 Vaccine Provision for Refugee, Immigrant, and Migrant Communities.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2023Article
- Measuring the Optimal Time Interval Between Arrival and First Mental Health Evaluation's for Refugees in Québec: A Scoping Review.Administration and policy in mental health · 2023Article
- Resettlement, mental health, and coping: a mixed methods survey with recently resettled refugee parents in Canada.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Migration and Cognitive Health Disparities: The Arab American and Refugee Case.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Article
- Kurdish Refugee Beliefs about Mental Health and Help-Seeking: A Community-Engaged Research Study in Tennessee.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
7 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors.
Funding
Abstract
We conducted a survey among Iraqi refugees resettled in the United States to assess their physical and mental health status and healthcare access and utilization following the initial 8-month, post-arrival period. We randomly selected Iraqi refugees: ≥18 years of age; living in the United States for 8–36 months; and residents of Michigan, California, Texas and Idaho. Participants completed a household questionnaire and mental health assessment. We distributed 366 surveys. Seventy-five percent of participants had health insurance at the time of the survey; 43 % reported delaying or not seeking care for a medical problem in the past year. Sixty percent of participants reported one chronic condition; 37 % reported ≥2 conditions. The prevalence of emotional distress, anxiety, and depression was approximately 50 % of participants; 31 % were at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder. Iraqi refugees in this evaluation reported a high prevalence of chronic conditions and mental health symptoms despite relatively high access to healthcare. It is important for resettlement partners to be aware of the distinctive health concerns of this population to best address needs within this community.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.