Gender disparities and psychological distress among humanitarian migrants in Australia: a moderating role of migration pathway?

ABSTRACT:

Background

The role of migration pathway (refugees vs. asylum seekers) is seldom addressed in extant literature that looks at gender and mental health of humanitarian migrants. The aim of this study is to assess the relationship between gender and psychological distress among humanitarian migrants in Australia including the potential moderating role of migration pathway.

Methods

We analyse data from 2399 humanitarian migrants that participated in the first wave of Building a New Life in Australia, a survey of humanitarian migrants in Australia, using Ordinary Least Squares multivariate regression.

Results

Women report significantly higher psychological distress than men. Migration pathway moderates the relationship between gender and psychological distress with women

SUBMITTER: Jarallah Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6449952 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature