Mental Health of Newcomer Refugee and Immigrant Youth During COVID-19
| dc.contributor.author | Nakhaie, Reza | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ramos, Howard | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vosoughi, Dara | |
| dc.contributor.author | Baghdadi, Obada | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-04-18T14:28:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-04-18T14:28:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description | This article comes from a study of newcomer refugee and immigrant youth's experiences with COVID-19, funded by the Child and Youth Refugee Research Coalition (CYRRC) in 2020. This study was done in partnership with the YMCA of Western Ontario. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | In this paper, we examine how the degree of newcomer youth assimilation and acculturation, food insecurity, resilience, and social connections affect the mental health of recent refugee and immigrant youth in a mid-sized city during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data for this study are based on a sample of newcomers, mostly refugees, surveyed between July and November 2020. Indicators of mental health problems include the frequency in which respondents felt sad, stressed, confused, isolated, helpless, nervous, hopeless, or depressed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Multivariate analysis points to the importance of resiliency and family density (i.e., number of siblings) for decreasing mental health problems, while food insecurity and length of residency in Canada increased them. Among these, food insecurity followed by resiliency were the strongest predictors of refugee and immigrant youth’s mental health. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Nakhaie, R., Ramos, H., Vosoughi, D., & Baghdadi, O. (2022). Mental Health of Newcomer Refugee and Immigrant Youth During COVID-19. Canadian Ethnic Studies, 54(1), 1-28. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/81580 | |
| dc.publisher | Canadian Ethnic Studies Association | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Canadian Ethnic Studies | en_US |
| dc.title | Mental Health of Newcomer Refugee and Immigrant Youth During COVID-19 | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |