Researchers identified 5,296 potentially relevant reports
through database searches, but noted that there is a paucity of
data available on factors that protect the psychological well-
being of refugee children. Their final sample consisted of 44
studies from high-income countries involving 5,776 displaced
children and adolescents. The studies included forcibly
displaced children from Bosnia, Cambodia, Central America,
Chile, Croatia, Cuba, the Middle East, Somalia, Sudan, Vietnam,
and the former Yugoslavia. The children and adolescents were
either internally displaced or resettled in Australia, Belgium,
Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden, the
United Kingdom, or the United States. 27 studies from low-income
and middle-income countries involving 5,765 children and
adolescents. They included forcibly displaced children from
Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bosnia, Cambodia, the Democratic Republic
of Congo, Kosovo, El Salvador, Eritrea, Guatemala, Iraq,
Namibia, the disputed Palestinian territory, Su