Prevalence of serious mental disorder in 7000 refugees resettled in western countries: a systematic review.

By M. Fazel, Jeremy Wheeler, John Danesh. The Lancet, 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education

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The Relationship Between Post-Migration Stress and Psychological Disorders in Refugees and Asylum Seekers (2016, background): “While there is emerging evidence 82 Page 4 of 9 Curr Psychiatry Rep (2016) 18: 82”
Stress and Coping in the Lives of Recent Immigrants and Refugees: Considerations for Counseling (2008, methodology): “Refugees based in Western countries may be about ten-times more likely than the age-matched general population to meet a diagnosis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder ( Fazel et al. 2005 ).”
The Prevalence of Mental Disorders among the Homeless in Western Countries: Systematic Review and Meta-Regression Analysis (2008, result): “Second, the prevalence estimates for psychosis were at least as high as those for depression, a finding in marked contrast from community estimates of these conditions [62,63], and in other at-risk groups such as prisoners [64] and refugees [65], in whom depression is more common.”
Psychological Distress in Refugee Children: A Systematic Review (2011, background): “Concerning children, Fazel et al. (2005) identified five studies showing PTSD levels at 11%.”
Association of torture and other potentially traumatic events with mental health outcomes among populations exposed to mass conflict and displacement: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (2009, background): “Methodological factors, particularly theapproachused forsamplinganddiagnosis, appear to exert a large influence on the prevalence rates yielded by surveys.(8) An outstanding question, howAuthor Affiliations are listed at the end of this article.”
Long-term mental health of war-refugees: a systematic literature review (2015, methodology): “The assessment of the methodological quality of individual studies included in the review was guided by general guidelines for assessing prevalence studies [26] and key quality criteria identified in previous reviews of refugees’ mental health [2, 8, 9].”
The prevalence of mental illness in refugees and asylum seekers: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2020, methodology): “The search was based on that used in the earlier systematic review by Fazel and colleagues [6] but expanded to increase the range of databases searched, number of search terms, and stricter criteria regarding study inclusion.”
A Theoretical Understanding of Refugee Trauma (2010, background): “A systematic review by Fazel et al. (2005) of 7,000 refugees substantiated the notion that refugees who resettled in Western countries were ten times more likely to have PTSD than age-matched general populations in those countries.”
A systematic review of reviews on the prevalence of anxiety disorders in adult populations (2016, background): “Original studies Inadequate study response rates Heterogeneous definitions of subthreshold GAD Review Some studies missed Difficult to define search terms for subthreshold GAD Insufficient studies for subpopulations Different study quality 7 Steel 2014 Search: Jan 2014 # incl. studies 174 Meta-analy”
Resilience and Its Association with Depression, Emotional and Behavioural Problems, and Mental Health Service Utilisation among Refugee Adolescents Living in South Australia (2012, background): “Depressive disorders, including major depression, were reported among 17% of Bosnian adolescents [8] and 12.9% Cambodian children exiled in the US ([9]; see also, [10]); while 11.5% Tibetan refugee children in India were also diagnosed as suffering from both PTSD and major depression [11].”