Marianne Antonius Jakobsen|Melinda A. Meyer Demott|Tore Wentzel?Larsen|Trond Heir
The impact of the asylum process on mental health: a longitudinal study of unaccompanied refugee minors in Norway
Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies|Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies|Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Eastern and Southern Norway|Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies|Faculty (United Kingdom)|University of Oslo|Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies
examine mental health unaccompanied refugee minors prospectively asylumseeking process focus specific stages asylum process age assessment placement supportive nonsupportive facility final decision asylum applicationsthis a2 year followup study unaccompanied minors um seeking asylum norway data collected within three weeks n138 4 months n101 15 months n84 26 months n69 arrivalinitially observation orientation centre unaccompanied asylumseeking adolescents subsequently wherever um located refugee facilities norwaymale um afghanistan somalia algeria iranmental health symptoms assessed hopkins symptom checklist25 harvard trauma questionnaireat group level young asylum seekers reported high levels psychological distress arrival symptom levels stayed relatively unchanged time according ageassessment procedures 56 population recognised minors subsequent placement lowsupport facility associated higher levels psychological distress followup period placed reception centre adults higher levels psychological distress symptoms 15 months 26 months compared remaining participants placed reception centres youth refusal asylum highly associated higher levels psychological distressmental health trajectory young asylum seekers appears negatively affected low support refusal asylum