Joanne Enticott|Frances Shawyer|Shiva Vasi|Kimberly Buck|I?Hao Cheng|Grant Russell|Ritsuko Kakuma|Harry Minas|Graham Meadows
A systematic review of studies with a representative sample of refugees and asylum seekers living in the community for participation in mental health research
Monash University|Monash University|Monash University|Monash University|Monash University|Monash University|University of Melbourne|University of Melbourne|University of Melbourne
aim review literature identify effective methods creating representative sample refugee asylum seeker groups living community participate health mental health survey research systematic search academic grey literature conducted relevant literature hidden groups published january 1995 january 2016 main search used medline psycinfo embase cinahl scopus electronic databases hidden groups defined refugees asylum seekers stateless persons harddifficult reach populations supplementary grey literature search conducted identified articles rated according created graded system level evidence community representative sample based key study factors indicated possible sources selection bias articles included assessed medium higher evidence representative sample fulltext papers met eligibility criteria examined detail relevant data extracted searches identified total 20 publications inclusion 16 peerreviewed publications four highly relevant reports seventeen studies sampled refugee asylum seekers three hidden groups main search identified 12 600 grey search identified another eight 400 articles 20 described sampling techniques accessing hidden groups participation healthrelated research key design considerations priori aim recruit representative sample reliable sampling frame recording response rates implementation long recruitment periods using multiple nonprobability sampling methods possible including probability sampling component online social networking sites used one study engagement refugee asylum seeker group universally endorsed literature necessary variety additional efforts reported strategies increasing likelihood representative sample hidden group identified assist researchers future research refugee groups findings encourage rigorous reporting future studies representativeness samples groups research readily assessed