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SynthesisFrontiers in psychiatry2024

Resilience after adversity: an umbrella review of adversity protective factors and resilience-promoting interventions.

Biruk Beletew Abate, Ashenafi Kibret Sendekie, Abay Woday Tadesse, Tesfaye Engdaw, Ayelign Mengesha, Alemu Birara Zemariam, Addis Wondmagegn Alamaw, Gebremeskel Abebe, Molla Azmeraw

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Synthesis in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Resilience at the Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Sex, and Sexual Orientation among U.S. Adults.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2026
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  6. Growing in the Shadow of Mental Illness: Quality of Life, Health Status, Social Functioning, and Health Care Utilization Among Adults to Parents With Severe Mental Illness.Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Biruk Beletew AbateCollege of Medicine and Health Science, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia.
Ashenafi Kibret SendekieDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Science, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia.
Abay Woday TadesseCollege of Medicine and Health Sciences, Samara University, Samara, Ethiopia.
Tesfaye EngdawCollege of Medicine and Health Science, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia.
Ayelign MengeshaCollege of Medicine and Health Science, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia.
Alemu Birara ZemariamCollege of Medicine and Health Science, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia.
Addis Wondmagegn AlamawCollege of Medicine and Health Science, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia.
Gebremeskel AbebeCollege of Medicine and Health Science, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia.
Molla AzmerawCollege of Medicine and Health Science, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Introduction: Resilience is the dynamic adaptive process of maintaining or recovering mental health from stressors, such as trauma, challenging life circumstances, critical transitions, or physical illnesses. Resilience after adversity can be fostered through protective factors and the implementation of interventions that promote resilience. Hence, it is essential to investigate both protective and vulnerable factors to reduce the negative effects of unfavorable life events and increase resilience through positive risk-response interventions. Objective: To assess the effect of previous adversity, protecting factors, and resilience-promoting interventions to possess resilience after adversity in a global context. Methods: The study included English language articles sourced from PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Web of Sciences, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Scopus, and Google Scholar published before 15 April 2024. These articles reported the effect of adversity, protecting factors, and/or resilience-promoting interventions to possess resilience after adversity in a global context without a population age limitation. The quality of the included studies was assessed using the Assessment of Multiple Systematic Reviews. A weighted inverse-variance random-effects model was applied to find the pooled estimates. The subgroup analysis, heterogeneity, publication bias, and sensitivity analysis were also assessed. Results: A total of 44 articles (n = 556,920 participants) were included in this umbrella review. From the random-effects model analysis, the pooled effect of adversity on the development of resilience was 0.25 ( Conclusion: The findings of this umbrella review revealed that people who experienced early adversity can develop resilience later in life. The study highlights the need to consider adversity protective factors, such as availability of support (family, friends, and school), cognitive ability, community cohesion, positive self-perception, religious involvement, and self-regulation, and resilience-promoting interventions, including CBT interventions, mindfulness-based interventions, and mixed interventions, to enhance resilience promotion programs.

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adversityinterventionsprotecting factorsresilientumbrella review

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PMCPMC11487322

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