The Role of Resilience for Migrants and Refugees’ Mental Health in Times of COVID-19
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Method
2.1. Materials
- (i)
- I fear COVID-19
- (ii)
- I consider that I have correctly informed myself about COVID-19
- (iii)
- I am concerned about the economic impact that this pandemic may have in my country.
2.2. Procedure
2.3. Participants and Ethics
2.4. Data Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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95% CI for Cohen’s d | ||||||
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Variable | Migrant | Non-Migrant | p | Cohen’s d | Lower | Upper |
Fear COVID-19 | 4.81 (3.16) | 5.09 (2.51) | 0.434 | 0.102 | −0.153 | 0.356 |
Well-informed | 7.23 (2.24) | 7.66 (1.88) | 0.106 | 0.210 | −0.045 | 0.465 |
Economy | 8.02 (2.67) | 8.35 (1.94) | 0.279 | 0.141 | −0.114 | 0.395 |
Resilience | 16.38 (2.88) | 15.17 (2.56) | <0.001 | −0.448 | −0.704 | −0.190 |
Depression | 4.55 (4.02) | 2.73 (2.65) | <0.001 | −0.554 | −0.812 | −0.295 |
Anxiety | 4.30 (4.47) | 2.31 (2.31) | <0.001 | −0.589 | −0.847 | −0.329 |
Stress | 7.48 (5.31) | 5.28 (3.09) | <0.001 | −0.527 | −0.785 | −0.269 |
Variable | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fear COVID-19 (1) | — | ||||||
Well-Informed (2) | 0.133 * | — | |||||
Economy (3) | 0.170 ** | 0.124 | — | ||||
Resilience (4) | −0.007 | 0.097 | 0.096 | — | |||
Depression (5) | 0.016 | −0.080 | 0.027 | −0.357 *** | — | ||
Anxiety (6) | 0.197 ** | −0.002 | 0.111 | −0.224 *** | 0.603 *** | — | |
Stress (7) | 0.146 * | 0.011 | 0.018 | −0.234 *** | 0.606 *** | 0.733 *** | — |
Model | Coeff | SE | t | p | LLCI | ULCI | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Depression | Constant | 0.0324 | 0.0609 | 0.5315 | 0.5955 | −0.0876 | 0.1524 |
Group | 0.7044 | 0.1329 | 5.2992 | <0.001 | 0.4425 | 0.9662 | |
Resilience | −0.3349 | 0.0624 | −5.3668 | <0.001 | −0.4578 | −0.212 | |
Interaction | −0.3044 | 0.13 | −2.341 | 0.02 | −0.5605 | −0.0483 | |
Anxiety | Constant | 0.0312 | 0.062 | 0.5025 | 0.6158 | −0.091 | 0.1533 |
Group | 0.6768 | 0.1392 | 4.8603 | <0.001 | 0.4025 | 0.9511 | |
Resilience | −0.2036 | 0.059 | −3.4526 | 0.0007 | −0.3197 | −0.0874 | |
Interaction | −0.2928 | 0.127 | −2.3056 | 0.022 | −0.5429 | −0.0426 | |
Stress | Constant | 0.0358 | 0.0603 | 0.5938 | 0.5532 | −0.083 | 0.1547 |
Group | 0.6289 | 0.1324 | 4.7502 | <0.001 | 0.3681 | 0.8896 | |
Resilience | −0.2121 | 0.0557 | −3.8074 | 0.0002 | −0.3218 | −0.1024 | |
Interaction | −0.3366 | 0.1138 | −2.9569 | 0.0034 | −0.5609 | −0.1124 |
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Solà-Sales, S.; Pérez-González, N.; Van Hoey, J.; Iborra-Marmolejo, I.; Beneyto-Arrojo, M.J.; Moret-Tatay, C. The Role of Resilience for Migrants and Refugees’ Mental Health in Times of COVID-19. Healthcare 2021, 9, 1131. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9091131
Solà-Sales S, Pérez-González N, Van Hoey J, Iborra-Marmolejo I, Beneyto-Arrojo MJ, Moret-Tatay C. The Role of Resilience for Migrants and Refugees’ Mental Health in Times of COVID-19. Healthcare. 2021; 9(9):1131. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9091131
Chicago/Turabian StyleSolà-Sales, Sara, Natalia Pérez-González, Julie Van Hoey, Isabel Iborra-Marmolejo, María José Beneyto-Arrojo, and Carmen Moret-Tatay. 2021. "The Role of Resilience for Migrants and Refugees’ Mental Health in Times of COVID-19" Healthcare 9, no. 9: 1131. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9091131