Mental health and mental health help-seeking behaviors among first-generation voluntary African migrants: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Mental health challenges are highly prevalent in African migrants. However, understanding of mental health outcomes in first-generation voluntary African migrants is limited, despite the unique challenges faced by this migrant subgroup. This review aimed to synthesize the literature to understand the mental health challenges, help-seeking behavior, and the relationship between mental health and mental health help-seeking behavior in first-generation voluntary African migrants living outside Africa.

Methods

Medline Complete, EMBASE, CINAHL Complete, and APA PsychINFO were searched for studies published between January 2012 to December 2023. Retrieved articles were processed, data from selected articles were extracted and synthesized to address the study aims, and incl

SUBMITTER: Botchway-Commey EN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10947684 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature