Cohort profile: biological pathways of risk and resilience in Syrian refugee children (BIOPATH).

ABSTRACT: The BIOPATH cohort was established to explore the interplay of psychosocial and biological factors in the development of resilience and mental health problems in Syrian refugee children. Based in Lebanon, a middle-income country significantly impacted by the refugee crisis, it is the first such cohort of refugees in the Middle East. Families were recruited from informal tented settlements in the Beqaa region using purposive cluster sampling. At baseline (October 2017-January 2018), N = 3188 individuals participated [n = 1594 child-caregiver dyads; child gender, 52.6% female; mean (SD) age = 11.44 (2.44) years, range = 6-19]. Re-participation rate at 1-year follow-up was 62.8%. Individual interviews were conducted with children and primary caregivers and biological samples collected from ch

SUBMITTER: McEwen FS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8960581 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature