I had to leave. I had to leave my clinic, my city, leave everything behind in Syria. Qualitative research of Syrian healthcare workers migrating from the war-torn country.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explore the reasons why healthcare workers migrate from Syria, a country where conflict has been raging for over a decade.

Design

A qualitative study was performed using semistructured interviews. Semistructured questions guided in-depth interviews. Content analysis was used.

Setting

Participants were Syrian healthcare workers who had worked in the country after the conflict started in 2011, but at some point left Syria and settled abroad. The interviews took place in Turkey and Europe in 2016 and 2017.

Participants

We collected data from 20 participants (18 males and 2 females) through snowball sampling method.

Results

Healthcare workers migrated from Syria only because of security reasons. In most cases, the decision to leave resulted fro

SUBMITTER: Kallstrom A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8572379 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature