Asylum seeking and refugee adolescents' mental health service use and help-seeking patterns: a mixed-methods study.

ABSTRACT: Almost a third of all people who entered Germany to seek protection since 2010 were under the age of 18. Asylum-seeking and refugee (ASR) adolescents in Germany face reduced entitlements to healthcare and experience barriers in accessing mental healthcare, despite documented mental health needs. This mixed-methods study aims to describe the mental health needs and service use of ASR adolescents in Germany and identify the predictors of their help-seeking patterns. Here we report findings of cross-sectional data collected between February 2019 and November 2020 in schools and refugee accommodations in three German federal states. Our subsample consists of ASR between the ages of 11 and 18, coming from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq (N = 216). Cross-sectional data are supplemented by se

SUBMITTER: Namer Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9628352 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature