Table 1.
Characteristics of included studies. Descending order according to study type and study period
| Study period | Country code |
N participants | Details and focus of the study | C1 | C2 | C3 | Other topics | First author & Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cross-sectional studies | ||||||||
| 2012–2015 | US | 363 | Acceptance of mental health services in relation to age, gender, and country of origin | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | Ballard-Kang [13] |
| 2013–2014 | US | 40 | Refugees’ satisfaction with home health services visits | 0 | 1 | 0 | Home visits | Miner [14] |
| 2008–2014 | IT | 151,311 | Access to preventive health in national health surveys of Belgium, Italy, Malta, Portugal and Spain | 0 | 0 | 0 | Context | Rosano [15] |
| 2001–2013 | US | 370 | Analysis on initiation of antenatal care for migrant women who gave birth | 1 | 1 | 1 | Initiation visits | Kentoffio [16] |
| 2008 | US | 810 | Use of preventive medicine by Somali patients at US health facility | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | Morrison [17] |
| 2005 | UK | 1611 | Questionnaire survey of patients at an accident and emergency centre in London | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | Hargreaves [18] |
| 2004 | NL | 580 | Mental health service uptake of Turkish/Moroccan migrants and Dutch in NL | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | Fassaert [19] |
| 2002 | US | 304 | Impact of health counselling and health services on functional health outcomes of Sudanese youth arrived by Unaccompanied Refugee Minors Program | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | Geltman [20] |
| 2001–2002 | AU | 199 | East African children attending an immigrant health clinic for the first time | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | Cooke [21] |
| ns | US | 70 | Trauma related psychiatric symptoms in Bosnian refugees | 0 | 0 | 1 | – | Weine [22] |
| 2011 | CA | 113 | Language barriers in mental health; practitioners self-report survey in Montreal | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | Brisset [23] |
| 2011 | CA | 41 | Primary care practitioners performing modified Delphi consensus process on innovative strategies improving primary health care delivery to vulnerable populations | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | Pottie [24] |
| Qualitative studies | ||||||||
| 2015–2016 | CA | 6 | Interviews with health care providers about telemedicine for migrant health care delivery | 1 | 1 | 1 | Telemedicine | Sandre [25] |
| 2012–2013 | AU | 64 | Interviews/focus groups with Afghan parents who had recently had a child and health professionals on quality of care | 1 | 1 | 1 | Time, legal status | Yelland [26] [27] |
| 2012–2013 | AU | 16 | Evaluation of Australian mental health services from the perspective of young people with refugee background | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | Valibhoi [28] |
| 2012 | US | 39 | Focus groups with refugees from Iraq, Eritrea, Somalia, Bhutan on US health care | 1 | 1 | 1 | Context | Worabo [29] |
| 2012 | US & MX | 33 | Interviews on sexual health with indigenous women and nurses in migrant-sending and migrant-receiving communities | 1 | 1 | 1 | Gender | Espinoza [30] |
| 2012 | AU | 87 | Focus groups with mothers from refugee and migrant backgrounds on maternal and child health services | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | Riggs [31] |
| 2010–2011 | AU | 115 | Focus groups and key informant interviews with service providers experienced in young refugee’s mental health in Melbourne | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | Colucci [32]`` |
| 2010–2011 | CA | 15 | Interviews with young mental health patients, caregivers and clinicians on quality of care | 1 | 1 | 1 | Collaboration | Nadeau [33] |
| 2009–2010 | UK | 16 | Interviews with NGO workers at HIV clinic on access to health services | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | Whyte [34] |
| 2010 | US & MX | 15 | Interviews with female patients and key informants in Mexico and California on access to and quality of sexual and reproductive health services | 1 | 1 | 1 | Context, gender | Deeb-Sossa [35] |
| 2008–2009 | UK | 40 | Interviews with adolescent refugees investigating school as convenient location for mental health services | 0 | 1 | 1 | Stigma, Collaboration | Fazel [36] |
| 2005–2008 | CA | 47 | Focus groups with Immigrants, refugees, non-status patients living with HIV/AIDS | 1 | 1 | 1 | Social events | Chen [37] |
| 2005–2006 | AU | 34 | Chinese mental health patients and providers on barriers to mental health care | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | Blignault [38] |
| 2004–2006 | AU | 38 | Focus groups and interviews with informants, providing health services to Afghans | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | Omeri [39] |
| ns | US | 28 | Interviews with Slavic emigres and key informants on chronic health conditions | 1 | 1 | 1 | Context | Van Son [40] |
| ns | UK | 6 | Interviews with Kurdish interpreters in UK | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | Green [41] |
| ns | US | 20 | Interviews with migrant farmworkers on health beliefs regarding their children | 1 | 1 | 1 | Context | Newton [42] |
| Good practice reports | ||||||||
| 2017 | AU | na | Characteristics to be collected in medical records to improve health care for migrants | 1 | 0 | 0 | Data collection | Yelland [43] |
| 1987–2016 | AU | na | Individualized mental health clinic | 1 | 1 | 1 | Holistic approach | Kaplan [44] |
| 2010 | AU | na | Narrative medicine in refugee mental health | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | Benson [45] |
| Expert opinions | ||||||||
| 2016 | CA | na | Description of migrant health care delivery in Canada | 1 | 1 | 1 | Context | Rahman [46] |
| 2009 | IT | na | Expert analysis of reason for results of Swedish cohort study on psychotropic substance use | 0 | 1 | 1 | – | Nose [47] |
| 2002 | AU | na | Problems refugees face in accessing effective health care; ways in which health services can respond | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | Lamb [48] |
| TOTAL | 29 | 28 | 28 | |||||
AIDS: acquired immune deficiency syndrome; C1: Communication; C2: Continuity of Care; C3: Confidence; HIV: Human immunodeficiency virus; na; not applicable; N: number
NGO: Non-governmental organisation