Variability in mental health reporting among refugees and migrants in need of protection: new evidence from a weekly panel survey

ABSTRACT:

Background

The global population of refugees and other migrants in need of protection (MNP) is swiftly growing. Prior scholarship highlights that MNP have poorer mental health than other migrant and non-migrant populations. However, most scholarship on MNP mental health is cross-sectional, leaving open questions about temporal variability in their mental health.

Methods

Leveraging novel weekly survey data from Latin American MNP in Costa Rica, we describe the prevalence, magnitude, and frequency of variability in eight indicators of self-reported mental health over 13-weeks; highlight which demographic characteristics, incorporation hardships, and violence exposures are most predictive of variability; and determine how variability corresponds to baseline mental health.

SUBMITTER: Weitzman A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10161428 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature