Table 1.
Study and participant characteristics
| Author | Year | Study setting | Study design | Participant characteristics | Immigration status | Participant country of origin | Type of usual standard mental health services for refugee women |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whittaker, et al. | 2005 | UK | Cross-sectional | Female refugees born in north Somalia, entered UK as a child or adolescent living in England for over 1 year | Asylum-seeker; refugees | Somalia | Doctors, counsellors, “shrinks”, psychologists, bereavement groups, telephone help lines, homecare |
| Wong, et al. | 2006 | USA | Cross-sectional | Refugees from Cambodian origin between 35 and 75 years old | Refugees | Cambodian | Mental health care services |
| Donnelly, et al. | 2011 | Canada | Qualitative | Refugee and migrant women living with mental illness. | Refugees | China and Sudan | Mental health care services |
| Drummond, et al. | 2011 | Australia | Cross-sectional | Refugee women aged between 20 and 67 years from Liberia or Sierra Leone who have lived in Australia for 6 months to 5 years. | Refugees | Liberia, Sierra Leone | Health care services and mental health services |
| O'Mahony, et al. | 2013 | Canada | Qualitative | Over 18 years old, non- European women with immigrant or refugee s status, living in Canada | Refugees | Costa Rica | post-partum depression mental health services |
| Piwowarczyk, et al. | 2014 | USA | Qualitative | Refugee women from Congolese or Somalian backgrounds, above the age of 18 years old. (Age range 18–59) | Refugees | Somalia and Congolese | Mental health services |
| Ahmed, et al. | 2017 | Canada | Mixed-methods | Pregnant or within 1 year of giving birth, admitted to Canada as government or privately sponsored refugees, able to speak English and Arabic. (Age range:20 to 37 years) | Refugees | Saskatoon, Canada | Natal and antenatal mental health care |
| Clark N. | 2018 | Canada | Qualitative | Karen women receiving frontline health care services (Age range: 26–60). | Refugees | Karen speaking; Burmese, and Thailand | Mental health services |
| Smith, et al. | 2019 | Australia | Qualitative | Adult and youth former refugee and essential service providers residing in Launceston. | Refugees | Afghanistan, Bhutan, Burma, Sierra Leone, Sudan and Iran | Mental health essential services |
| Willey, et al. | 2019 | Australia | Qualitative | Refugees that are in the last stages of pregnancy or post-natal pregnancy care, living in a suburb in Melbourne. | Refugees | Burmese and Dari- Afghan, Indian, Vietnamese refugee women | Perinatal mental health screening |
| Babatunde Sowole, et al. | 2020 | Australia | Qualitative | Women aged 18 years and older who are fluent in English living in Australia for over 12 months. | Asylum-seeker; refugees | West Africa | Mental health provision |
| Tulli, et al. | 2020 | Canada | Qualitative | Immigrant and refugee mothers living in Edmonton, Canada, and have children living in Canada. (Age range:18–50) | Refugees | Sudan, Syria, Colombia | Pediatric and immigrant mental health care |