Table 2.

Exposure to stressful life events, adversity and/or violence

	Authors and publication year	Title	Reported exposures to stressful life events, adversity and/or violence
1	Abdalla and Elklit [1]	A nationwide screening of refugee children from Kosovo	Witness to violence, exposed to violence, exercised violence, participated in acts of war, physical damage, extreme poverty, starvation, torture, separation and loss
2	Almqvist and Brandell-Forsberg [2]	Refugee children in Sweden: post-traumatic stress disorder in Iranian preschool children exposed to organized violence	Exposure to political persecution and war experiences
3	Almqvist and Broberg [3]	Mental health and social adjustment in young refugee children 3.5 years after their arrival in Sweden	Children’s exposure to traumatic stress, parental exposure to traumatic stress, children’s exposure to bullying and harassment
4	Angel et al. [4]	Effects of war and organized violence on children: a study of Bosnian refugees in Sweden	Experiences of war and persecution
5	Back Nielsen et al. [6]	Risk of childhood psychiatric disorders in children of refugee parents with post-traumatic stress disorder: a nationwide, register-based, cohort study	N/A
6	Berg et al. [7]	Underutilisation of psychiatric care among refugee adolescents in Stockholm	N/A
7	Eiset et al. [14]	The health status of newly arrived asylum-seeking minors in Denmark: a nationwide register-based study	Separations, loss, poverty or starvation, violence
8	Ekblad [15]	Psychosocial adaptation of children while housed in a Swedish refugee camp: Aftermath of the collapse of Yugoslavia	Separation/losses, exposure to violence, e.g., seeing police and military vehicles
9	Gusic et al. [23]	Dissociative experiences and trauma exposure among newly arrived and settled young war refugees	War/refugee and general trauma
10	Hjern et al. [28]	Persecution and behavior: a report on refugee children from Chile	Experiences related to political persecution (e.g., witnessed assaults and arrests or exposure to violence)
11	Hjern et al. [29]	Political violence, family stress and mental health of refugee children in exile	Organized violence (e.g., witness to violence) and separations
12	Hjern and Angel [27]	Organized violence and mental health of refugee children in exile: a 6-year follow-up	Organized violence and recent family stress (e.g., death of parent)
13	Jensen et al. [32]	Stressful life experiences and mental health problems among unaccompanied asylum-seeking children	Separation from family, physical or sexual violence, and war or armed conflict
14	Jensen et al. [33]	Development of mental health problems—a follow-up study of unaccompanied refugee minors	Separation from family, physical or sexual violence, and war or armed conflict
15	Montgomery and Foldspang [52]	Traumatic experience and sleep disturbance in refugee children from the Middle East	Exposure to war and other organized violence
16	Montgomery and Foldspang [51]	Seeking asylum in Denmark: refugee children’s mental health and exposure to violence	Lived under conditions of war, witnessed violence, parents detained or tortured, own detainment or parent death or disappearance
17	Montgomery [48]	Long-term effects of organized violence on young Middle Eastern refugees’ mental health	Experiences before arrival in Denmark (e.g., lived under war conditions, lived in a refugee camp), experiences after arrival in Denmark (been attacked, witnessed attack), discrimination in Denmark (e.g., teased, derogatory remarks)
18	Montgomery [49]	Trauma and resilience in young refugees: a 9 year follow-up study	War related life conditions, witnessing violent acts, loss and separation, direct exposure to violence, family exposure
19	Montgomery and Foldspang [52]	Discrimination, mental problems and social adaption in young refugees	Discrimination
20	Nielsen et al. [53]	Mental health among children seeking asylum in Denmark—the effect of length of stay and number of relocations: a cross-sectional study	N/A
21	Salari et al. [58]	Screening for PTSD symptoms in unaccompanied refugee minors: a test of the CRIES-8 questionnaire in routine care	N/A
22	Sarkadi et al. [59]	Is the Refugee Health Screener a Useful Tool when Screening 14–18 Year-Old Refugee Adolescents for Emotional Distress?	N/A
23	Solberg et al. [66]	Children at risk: a nation-wide, cross-sectional study examining post-traumatic stress symptoms in refugee minors from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan resettled in Sweden between 2014 and 2018	N/A
24	Solberg et al. [65]	Health-related quality of life in refugee minors from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan resettled in Sweden: a nation-wide, cross-sectional study	N/A
25	Sourander [66]	Behavior problems and traumatic events of unaccompanied refugee minors	Death or disappearance of parent, eyewitness to violence, personal experience of violence, lived in refugee camp and persecution
26	Vervliet et al. [76]	The mental health of unaccompanied refugee minors on arrival in the host country	Separation from family, physical or sexual violence, and war or armed conflict

N/A not applicable