‘I am because you are’: Community support as a bridge to mental wellbeing for resettled African refugee women living in Rhode Island
African refugee women resettled in the United States are exposed to multiple risk factors for poor mental health. Currently, no comprehensive framework exists on which to guide mental health interventions specific to this population. Through a community-based participatory research partnership, we i...
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| author | Kira DiClemente-Bosco Aline Binyungu Clement Shabani Jennifer A. Pellowski Don Operario Nicole Nugent Abigail Harrison |
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| description | African refugee women resettled in the United States are exposed to multiple risk factors for poor mental health. Currently, no comprehensive framework exists on which to guide mental health interventions specific to this population. Through a community-based participatory research partnership, we interviewed N = 15 resettled African refugees living in Rhode Island. Here we (1) describe how meanings of mental health within the African refugee community vary from US understandings of PTSD, depression, and anxiety and (2) generate a framework revealing how mental health among participants results from interactions between social support, African sociocultural norms, and US norms and systems. Multiple barriers and facilitators of mental wellbeing lie at the intersections of these three primary concepts. We recommend that public health and medicine leverage the strength of existing community networks and organisations to address the heavy burden of poor mental health among resettled African refugee women. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-332ff62ab65847da99fee3f99b6f59a32024-12-03T19:27:47ZengTaylor & Francis GroupGlobal Public Health1744-16921744-17062024-12-0119110.1080/17441692.2024.2314106‘I am because you are’: Community support as a bridge to mental wellbeing for resettled African refugee women living in Rhode IslandKira DiClemente-Bosco0Aline Binyungu1Clement Shabani2Jennifer A. Pellowski3Don Operario4Nicole Nugent5Abigail Harrison6Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USAWomen’s Refugee Care, Providence, RI, USAWomen’s Refugee Care, Providence, RI, USADepartment of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown School of Public Health, Providence, RI, USADepartment of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USADepartment of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USADepartment of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown School of Public Health, Providence, RI, USAAfrican refugee women resettled in the United States are exposed to multiple risk factors for poor mental health. Currently, no comprehensive framework exists on which to guide mental health interventions specific to this population. Through a community-based participatory research partnership, we interviewed N = 15 resettled African refugees living in Rhode Island. Here we (1) describe how meanings of mental health within the African refugee community vary from US understandings of PTSD, depression, and anxiety and (2) generate a framework revealing how mental health among participants results from interactions between social support, African sociocultural norms, and US norms and systems. Multiple barriers and facilitators of mental wellbeing lie at the intersections of these three primary concepts. We recommend that public health and medicine leverage the strength of existing community networks and organisations to address the heavy burden of poor mental health among resettled African refugee women.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/17441692.2024.2314106Refugeesmental healthwomen’s healthcommunity-based participatory researchresettlement |
| spellingShingle | Kira DiClemente-Bosco Aline Binyungu Clement Shabani Jennifer A. Pellowski Don Operario Nicole Nugent Abigail Harrison ‘I am because you are’: Community support as a bridge to mental wellbeing for resettled African refugee women living in Rhode Island Global Public Health Refugees mental health women’s health community-based participatory research resettlement |
| title | ‘I am because you are’: Community support as a bridge to mental wellbeing for resettled African refugee women living in Rhode Island |
| title_full | ‘I am because you are’: Community support as a bridge to mental wellbeing for resettled African refugee women living in Rhode Island |
| title_fullStr | ‘I am because you are’: Community support as a bridge to mental wellbeing for resettled African refugee women living in Rhode Island |
| title_full_unstemmed | ‘I am because you are’: Community support as a bridge to mental wellbeing for resettled African refugee women living in Rhode Island |
| title_short | ‘I am because you are’: Community support as a bridge to mental wellbeing for resettled African refugee women living in Rhode Island |
| title_sort | i am because you are community support as a bridge to mental wellbeing for resettled african refugee women living in rhode island |
| topic | Refugees mental health women’s health community-based participatory research resettlement |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/17441692.2024.2314106 |
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