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ReviewJournal of immigrant and minority health2015

Improving Immigrant Populations' Access to Mental Health Services in Canada: A Review of Barriers and Recommendations.

Mary Susan Thomson, Ferzana Chaze, Usha George, Sepali Guruge

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Review in Journal of immigrant and minority health, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 108 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

108 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. Usability of technological tools to overcome language barriers in healthcare- a scoping review.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2025
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  19. Culturally Adapted Mental Health Education Programs for Migrant Populations: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Mary Susan ThomsonOntario Multicultural Health Applied Research Network, Faculty of Community Services, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON, M5B 2K3, Canada. marysusan.thomson@ryerson.ca.
Ferzana ChazeSchool of Social Work, Faculty of Community Services, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON, M5B 2K3, Canada. fchaze@gmail.com.
Usha GeorgeFaculty of Community Services, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON, M5B 2K3, Canada. ugeorge@ryerson.ca.
Sepali GurugeSchool of Nursing, Faculty of Community Services, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON, M5B 2K3, Canada. sguruge@ryerson.ca.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article emerges from a scoping review of over two decades of relevant literature on immigrants' access to mental health services in Canada. Key online databases were searched to explore the gaps and opportunities for improving access to mental health services using a review framework provided by Arksey and O'Malley (Int J Soc Res Methodol 8:19-32, 2005). Immigrants and refugees came from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds and had complex mental health-related concerns that were not currently being adequately addressed by existing services. The major barriers to the utilization of mental health services included: those related to the uptake of existing health information and services; those that were related to the process of immigrant settlement; and barriers related to availability of appropriate services. A thematic analysis of the range of recommendations that emerge from these studies for improvement of research, practice and policy is provided.

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CanadaCommunication BarriersCultural CompetencyEmigrants and ImmigrantsHealth Services AccessibilityHumansLanguageMental Health ServicesPatient Acceptance of Health CareRefugeesSocioeconomic FactorsAccess/barriers to servicesCanadaImmigrantsMental health

Identifiers

PMID25742880

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