Meanings of home and mental well-being among Sudanese refugees in Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: This article examines family and social factors that affect refugee mental health during resettlement by presenting qualitative analysis of the concept of home and its functional and psychological meanings based on findings from research with Sudanese refugees in Canada. DESIGN: Data were collected in two successive multi-method, community-based studies between 2003 and 2007 with Sudanese refugee participants in Ontario and Alberta, Canada. The first study used survey methods with 220 participants in seven sites and the second, in-depth qualitative interviews with 30 community members in three sites. RESULTS: In the first study, economic hardship and family adaptation challenges were reported to affect Sudanese mental well-being. The second study explored cultural aspects of Sudanese family and community well-being in greater depth. Meanings of home emerged from data as a key concept linking social support, resettlement, and mental health. Findings highlight how the presence or absence of the social supports associated with home affect refugees' mental health during resettlement. The analysis focuses on four themes: emotional support; fulfilling social roles and expectations; problem solving and conflict resolution; and dignity and growth, as well as perceived impact on community mental health. CONCLUSION: Qualities of home that Sudanese lack during resettlement points to critical gaps that must be filled by mental health and other service providers to promote positive refugee mental health in countries of resettlement.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".