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Coping and Resilience Strategies among Ukraine War Refugees
(1) Background: The war in Ukraine has triggered a huge humanitarian crisis: millions of refugees have escaped from their homes looking for shelter beyond Ukraine’s borders. This emergency offers a unique opportunity to investigate and to document those characteristics of the human condition that em...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9602814/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36293686 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013094 |
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author | Oviedo, Lluis Seryczyńska, Berenika Torralba, Josefa Roszak, Piotr Del Angel, Javier Vyshynska, Olena Muzychuk, Iryna Churpita, Slava |
author_facet | Oviedo, Lluis Seryczyńska, Berenika Torralba, Josefa Roszak, Piotr Del Angel, Javier Vyshynska, Olena Muzychuk, Iryna Churpita, Slava |
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description | (1) Background: The war in Ukraine has triggered a huge humanitarian crisis: millions of refugees have escaped from their homes looking for shelter beyond Ukraine’s borders. This emergency offers a unique opportunity to investigate and to document those characteristics of the human condition that emerge in exceptional circumstances provoked by war. Based on considerations derived from recent studies on resilience, the research at the base of this paper was conducted to better understand the circumstances, states of mind, and coping mechanisms of the refugees leaving their homes looking for security. (2) Methods: A qualitative approach was applied, resorting to semi-structured interviews (n = 94) to closely explore the traumatic experiences lived by refugees and to identify their coping strategies. (3) Results: The data obtained pointed to a plurality of coping and resilience strategies. Maintaining communication with separated loved ones as well as experiencing accompaniment by helpers and hosts emerged as principal elements for coping and resilience. It was found that a prior development of interior life or practice of prayer served as psychological “capital” that increased their resilience. (4) Conclusion: The results point to the need to care for social networking, attention by hosts, and cultivating interior life as keys for resilience. |
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spelling | pubmed-96028142022-10-27 Coping and Resilience Strategies among Ukraine War Refugees Oviedo, Lluis Seryczyńska, Berenika Torralba, Josefa Roszak, Piotr Del Angel, Javier Vyshynska, Olena Muzychuk, Iryna Churpita, Slava Int J Environ Res Public Health Article (1) Background: The war in Ukraine has triggered a huge humanitarian crisis: millions of refugees have escaped from their homes looking for shelter beyond Ukraine’s borders. This emergency offers a unique opportunity to investigate and to document those characteristics of the human condition that emerge in exceptional circumstances provoked by war. Based on considerations derived from recent studies on resilience, the research at the base of this paper was conducted to better understand the circumstances, states of mind, and coping mechanisms of the refugees leaving their homes looking for security. (2) Methods: A qualitative approach was applied, resorting to semi-structured interviews (n = 94) to closely explore the traumatic experiences lived by refugees and to identify their coping strategies. (3) Results: The data obtained pointed to a plurality of coping and resilience strategies. Maintaining communication with separated loved ones as well as experiencing accompaniment by helpers and hosts emerged as principal elements for coping and resilience. It was found that a prior development of interior life or practice of prayer served as psychological “capital” that increased their resilience. (4) Conclusion: The results point to the need to care for social networking, attention by hosts, and cultivating interior life as keys for resilience. MDPI 2022-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9602814/ /pubmed/36293686 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013094 Text en © 2022 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/). |
spellingShingle | Article Oviedo, Lluis Seryczyńska, Berenika Torralba, Josefa Roszak, Piotr Del Angel, Javier Vyshynska, Olena Muzychuk, Iryna Churpita, Slava Coping and Resilience Strategies among Ukraine War Refugees |
title | Coping and Resilience Strategies among Ukraine War Refugees |
title_full | Coping and Resilience Strategies among Ukraine War Refugees |
title_fullStr | Coping and Resilience Strategies among Ukraine War Refugees |
title_full_unstemmed | Coping and Resilience Strategies among Ukraine War Refugees |
title_short | Coping and Resilience Strategies among Ukraine War Refugees |
title_sort | coping and resilience strategies among ukraine war refugees |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9602814/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36293686 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013094 |
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