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Positive Mental Health of Migrants in the UK during COVID-19: A Review

COVID-19 impacted the mental health of many people in the UK. The negative impact was especially substantial among vulnerable population groups, including migrants. While research has focused on the negative aspects of mental health during the pandemic, the positive mental health of migrants in the...

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Autores principales: Kotera, Yasuhiro, Adam, Habib, Kirkman, Ann, Aledeh, Muhammad, Brooks-Ucheaga, Michelle, Todowede, Olamide, Rennick-Egglestone, Stefan, Jackson, Jessica Eve
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10671421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37998277
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20227046
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author Kotera, Yasuhiro
Adam, Habib
Kirkman, Ann
Aledeh, Muhammad
Brooks-Ucheaga, Michelle
Todowede, Olamide
Rennick-Egglestone, Stefan
Jackson, Jessica Eve
author_facet Kotera, Yasuhiro
Adam, Habib
Kirkman, Ann
Aledeh, Muhammad
Brooks-Ucheaga, Michelle
Todowede, Olamide
Rennick-Egglestone, Stefan
Jackson, Jessica Eve
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description COVID-19 impacted the mental health of many people in the UK. The negative impact was especially substantial among vulnerable population groups, including migrants. While research has focused on the negative aspects of mental health during the pandemic, the positive mental health of migrants in the UK during COVID-19 remained to be evaluated. This review aimed to identify literature that focused on positive mental health, and thematically synthesise the findings to understand what positive mental health approaches were employed to support specific outcomes during the pandemic for them to survive in this difficult time. Medline, Embase, and PsycINFO were searched using terms including “mental health”, “migrants”, and “COVID-19”. The Critical Appraisal Skills Programme checklist was used to assess the quality of the included studies. There were only two studies examining the positive mental health of UK migrants during this period. They describe approaches such as religious beliefs, passion for and acknowledgement of their job, learning new things, being physically active, social media, and social activities, producing outcomes such as inner peace, confidence, well-being, and a sense of belonging. The quality of the included studies was high. More research about positive mental health in migrants in the UK during the pandemic is needed.
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spelling pubmed-106714212023-11-10 Positive Mental Health of Migrants in the UK during COVID-19: A Review Kotera, Yasuhiro Adam, Habib Kirkman, Ann Aledeh, Muhammad Brooks-Ucheaga, Michelle Todowede, Olamide Rennick-Egglestone, Stefan Jackson, Jessica Eve Int J Environ Res Public Health Review COVID-19 impacted the mental health of many people in the UK. The negative impact was especially substantial among vulnerable population groups, including migrants. While research has focused on the negative aspects of mental health during the pandemic, the positive mental health of migrants in the UK during COVID-19 remained to be evaluated. This review aimed to identify literature that focused on positive mental health, and thematically synthesise the findings to understand what positive mental health approaches were employed to support specific outcomes during the pandemic for them to survive in this difficult time. Medline, Embase, and PsycINFO were searched using terms including “mental health”, “migrants”, and “COVID-19”. The Critical Appraisal Skills Programme checklist was used to assess the quality of the included studies. There were only two studies examining the positive mental health of UK migrants during this period. They describe approaches such as religious beliefs, passion for and acknowledgement of their job, learning new things, being physically active, social media, and social activities, producing outcomes such as inner peace, confidence, well-being, and a sense of belonging. The quality of the included studies was high. More research about positive mental health in migrants in the UK during the pandemic is needed. MDPI 2023-11-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10671421/ /pubmed/37998277 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20227046 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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