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ReviewCureus2020

Refugee and Migrant Children's Mental Healthcare: Serving the Voiceless, Invisible, and the Vulnerable Global Citizens.

Farah Khan, Noha Eskander, Therese Limbana, Zainab Salman, Parveez A Siddiqui, Syed Hussaini

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Review in Cureus, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from 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.

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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

6 authors.

Farah KhanPsychiatry, California Institute of Behavioral Neurosciences & Psychology, Fairfield, USA.
Noha EskanderPsychiatry, California Institute of Behavioral Neurosciences & Psychology, Fairfield, USA.
Therese LimbanaPsychiatry, California Institute of Behavioral Neurosciences & Psychology, Fairfield, USA.
Zainab SalmanInternal Medicine, Dubai Medical College, Dubai, ARE.
Parveez A SiddiquiInternal Medicine, Stat Cardiologist, Chicago, USA.
Syed HussainiMedicine, Windsor University School of Medicine, Basseterre, KNA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Millions of children are on the run worldwide, with many unaccompanied children and adolescents undertaking risky journeys to flee war, adverse circumstances, and political persecution. The grueling journey and multiple stressors faced by the refugee children, both accompanied and unaccompanied during the pre-migration, migration, and in the country of destination, increase their risk for psychiatric disorders and other medical conditions. Unaccompanied refugee migrant children have higher prevalence of mental health disorders than accompanied refugee peers. Long after reaching the host country, the refugee, migrant, and asylum-seeking juveniles continue to face adversities in the form of acculturation. In assessing medical fitness and healthcare mediations for refugees and migrant children, special consideration should be given to certain areas such as their distinct history, whether they are with their family or separated or unaccompanied, and whether they have been peddled or have been left behind.

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asylum-seekersmental healthmigrantrefugeetrauma

Identifiers

PMID32968603
PMCPMC7505673

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