R Gary Sibbald, Nancy Dalgarno, Amber Hastings-Truelove, Eleftherios Soleas, Reneeka Jaimangal, James Elliott, Angela M Coderre-Ball, Shannon Hill, Richard van Wylick, Karen Smith
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increasing numbers refugees ukraine affected ongoing war high risk traumarelated stress due low local health mental health literacy care perceived good health human right earlier studies show intervention refugees reduce prevent postmigration stress anxiety present explorative study aimed investigate feasibility effectiveness short traumafocused group intervention swedish hlsoskola ukrainianspeaking refugees eus mass refugee directive intervention part esf project aiming get subjects closer labor market vsternorrland county sweden mixedmethods design participatory methodology evaluation used data obtained short questionnaire ukrainian included visual analogue healthrating scale observation oral evaluation groups practical ethical reasons control group group met five times 2 h total 10 h excluding pre postassessment eight sets five group sessions per set total 40 sessions brief initial concluding breathing exercises sought reduce stress among participants baseline data obtained 99 participants mostly females data gathered directly group intervention 57 participants filled pre postquestionnaires showed 1 perceived anxietystress significantly reduced chi2 2553 df 4 p 001 2 participants showed significantly better perceived health assessed visual analogue scale average change 6316 7118 p 0001 result supported participants questions qualitatively evaluated using thematic content analysis five general themes stemmed questions raised dialogue participants plus observation respective local expert participants received answers questions perceived negative attitudes authorities changed positive ones dialogue participants needs knowledge direct answers local expert respectively feasible effective perceived trust health mental health literacy increased implications primary prevention discussed