Social-capital-based mental health interventions for refugees: A systematic review

Villalonga-Olives, E (通讯作者),Univ Maryland, Sch Pharm, Dept Pharmaceut Hlth Serv Res, 220 N Arch St,12th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21201 USA.
2022-5
With over 80 million people forcibly displaced worldwide, providing safe, healthy, and supportive places for refugees has become an imperative for national governments, aid organizations, and host communities. While much has been written about the needs of these displaced people, organizations and practitioners tend to focus on essential material needs, medical care, and food and water provisioning. Yet a growing body of evidence points to the potential role of social capital - the bonding, bridging, and linking social ties that connect us to one another - as a critical resource for these refugees. We have little data about social capital interventions at individual and community levels to assist with mental health for this vulnerable population, and even less methodical evidence about such interventions' impact. This systematic review analyzes nearly 400 articles to find patterns in the literature on how social-capital-based interventions can improve the mental health of refugees. Within the studies of interventions that met our filtering criteria, the reinforcement or creation of social capital, especially bridging and linking types, serves as a crucial resource to help this vulnerable group. Specifically, our review showed that community and multilevel social capital interventions are key to curbing mental health symptoms among refugees. Given this scanty evidence base among a group so vulnerable to mental health problems, this review serves as an explicit invitation for researchers to further examine social capital interventions among refugees.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
卷号:301
ISSN:0277-9536|收录类别:SCIE
语种
英语
来源机构
University System of Maryland; University of Maryland Baltimore; Arq Psychotrauma Expert Group; Northeastern University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland Baltimore; Northeastern University; Northeastern University
被引频次(WOS)
2
被引频次(其他)
2
180天使用计数
3
2013以来使用计数
5
EISSN
1873-5347
出版年
2022-5
DOI
10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114787
关键词
Refugees Social capital Interventions Multilevel Mental health Public health
WOS学科分类
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Social Sciences, Biomedical
学科领域
循证公共卫生 循证社会科学-综合