Prevalence of mental disorders in young refugees and asylum seekers in European Countries: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: The European Union member states received about 385,000 asylum applications from children and adolescents below 18 years in 2015, and 398,000 in 2016. The latest political crises and war have led to an upsurge in refugee movements into European countries, giving rise to a re-evaluation of the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders and mental health problems among young refugees and asylum seekers. We systematically searched five electronic databases and reference lists of pertinent review articles. We then screened the results of forward citation tracking of key articles for relevant studies in the field for the period from January 1990 to October 2017. We dually reviewed citations and assessed risk of bias. We reported the results narratively, as meta-analyses were impeded due to high hete

SUBMITTER: Kien C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6785579 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature