Table 6.
Characteristics of included studies - Migrants
| Reference number | Study (n = 18) | Country | Perspective | # of participants | Data collection | Analysis data | Health focus of study |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [30] | Baquero, 2010 | US | Mexican migrants | 397 households (one respondent per household) | Secondary cross-sectional data from San Diego Prevention Research Center (SDPRC) | Multilevel (hierarchical) logistic regression model | Obesity |
| [17] | Bhattacharya, 2011 | US | Indian migrants | 17 | Interviews (semi-structured) | Context-driven methodology Axial coding procedure | Acculturative stress |
| [18] | Chakrabarti, 2010 | US | Bengali migrants | 40 | In-depth, semi-structured interviews | Grounded theory approach | Pregnancy care |
| [19] | Escandell and Tapias, 2010 | Spain | Bolivian migrants | 28 transnational families, comprising of 58 individuals | Participant observation and in-depth interviews | Constructivist approach within a transnational framework | Transnational healing strategies |
| [31] | Hanley, Gravel, Lippel and Koo, 2014 | Canada | Precarious status workers (=temporary foreign workers or undocumented migrants) |
-Survey: 78 -Interviews: not stated for this study specifically |
Surveys and interviews | Not stated | Access to health and health-seeking behaviour |
| [20] | Heikkinen and Lumme-Sandt, 2013 | Finland | Former Soviet Union migrants (Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Russia) | 11 | Semi-structured qualitative face-to-face interviews | Content analysis | Transnational connections in later life |
| [21] | Krause, 2008 | UK | Ghanaian migrants | 36 |
-Ethnographic research -Narrative interviews |
Not stated | Transnational therapy networks |
| [32] | May, 1992 | US | Middle Eastern migrants (Egypt, Palestine, and Yemen) | 73 |
-Norbeck Social Support Questionnaire - Four Supplementary Social Support Questions - Support System Map -Child Health Interview Guide |
- F-tests for independent samples - One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) - Chi- square - Pearson product moment correlations - Content analysis |
Help-seeking for child healthcare |
| [22] | McFadden, Atkin and Renfrew, 2014 | UK | Bangladeshi migrants |
-Focus groups: 14 -Interviews: 23 |
-Focus group discussions -In-depth interviews |
Open and inductive coding using an ethnographic approach | Breastfeeding practices |
| [23] | Menjivar, 2002 | US | Ladina and indigenous Guatemalan migrants |
26 Also talked to others to complement findings |
Participant observation and in-depth, semi-structured interviews | Not stated | Health-seeking behaviour |
| [33] | Murphy and Mahalingam, 2004 | US | West Indian migrants | 137 | Surveys using the Transnationalism Scale |
-Factor analysis -Bi-variate correlations |
Mental health |
| [34] | Plaza and Plaza, 2019 | Canada | Trinidadian migrants |
-Surveys: 150 (2012) and 100 (2015) -Interviews: 10 |
-Two online Qualtrics surveys (2012 & 2015) - In-depth interviews |
-Interviews: Constant comparative method of analysis -Surveys: Not stated |
Transnational care chains |
| [24] | Sanon, Spigner and McCullagh, 2016 | US | Haitian migrants | 31 | Semi-structured interviews and demographic questionnaire | LeCompte and Schensul’s (2010) approach of qualitative analysis | Hypertension self-management |
| [25] | Thomas, 2010 | UK | Southern African migrants (Zimbabwe, Zambia, and South-Africa) | 70 | Focus group discussions | Grounded theory approach | Health seeking and treatment behaviours |
| [26] | Tiilikainen and Koehn, 2011 | Finland | Somali migrants |
Paper connects 3 different studies: 1) 14 2) 22 main informants 3) Not stated |
Paper connects 3 different studies: 1) Interviews 2) Ethnographic research 3) Social field observations and interviews |
Paper connects 3 different studies: 1) Not stated 2) Not stated 3) Not stated |
Transnational healthcare |
| [27] | Viruell-Fuentes, 2006 | US | Mexican migrants | 40 |
Semi-structured in-depth interviews Participant observations to complement findings |
Multistep analytical process | Transnational symbolic and affective characteristics |
| [28] | Viruell-Fuentes and Schulz, 2009 | US | Mexican migrants | 40 | Semi-structured in-depth interviews | Inductive coding | Transnational social ties and Latino health |
| [29] | Yearwood, 2007 | US | Caribbean migrants | 12 | Focus groups | Content analysis | Child healthcare decision making |