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Integrating mental health into primary care for post‑conflict populations: A pilot study

  • Migration Research
  • Journal Article
Mental health care in post-conflict settings is often not prioritized, despite its important public health role. There is a salient gap in integrating mental health

Mental health of displaced and returnee populations: Insight from the Sri Lankan post-conflict experience

  • Migration Research
  • Journal Article
The month of May 2015 marked the sixth year since the end of conflict in Sri Lanka. The cause of death, destruction and displacement, three

Impact of Economic Labour Migration: A Qualitative Exploration of Left-Behind Family Member Perspectives in Sri Lanka

  • Migration Research
  • Journal Article
Sri Lanka is a major labour sending country in Asia, with a high proportion of female labour migrants employed as domestic housemaids in the Middle

Risk of mental health and nutritional problems for left-behind children of international labor migrants

  • Migration Research
  • Journal Article
https://www.ird.lk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Risk-of-mental-health-and-nutritional-problems.pdf

Changes in mental disorder prevalence among conflict-affected populations: a prospective study in Sri Lanka (COMRAID-R)

  • Migration Research
  • Journal Article
Longitudinal data are lacking on mental health trajectories following conflict resolution and return migration. COMRAID-R is a follow-up study of Muslims displaced by conflict from

Common mental disorders among adult members of ‘left-behind’ international migrant worker families in Sri Lanka

  • Migration Research
  • Journal Article
A total of 410 IMW families were recruited (response rate: 95.1%). Both spouse and a non-spouse caregiver were recruited for 55 families with a total

Risk of mental health and nutritional problems for left-behind children of international labor migrants

  • Common Mental Disorders, Migration Research
  • Journal Article
One-in-ten Sri Lankans are employed abroad as International Labor Migrants (ILM), mainly as domestic maids or low-skilled laborers. Little is known about the impact their

Dynamics of resilience in forced migration: A 1-year follow-up study of longitudinal associations with mental health in a conflict-affected, ethnic Muslim population

  • Migration Research
  • Journal Article
The concept of ‘resilience’ is of increasing interest in studies of mental health in populations facing adversity. However, lack of longitudinal data on the dynamics

Conflict, forced displacement and health in Sri Lanka: a review of the research landscape

  • Migration Research
  • Journal Article
Sri Lanka has recently emerged from nearly three decades of protracted conflict, which came to an end five years ago in 2009. A number of

A systematic review of resilience and mental health outcomes of conflict-driven adult forced migrants

  • Migration Research
  • Journal Article
The rising global burden of forced migration due to armed conflict is increasingly recognised as an important issue in global health. Forced migrants are at

An intervention to improve mental health care for conflict-affected forced migrants in low-resource primary care settings: a WHO MhGAP-based pilot study in Sri Lanka (COM-GAP study)

  • Migration Research
  • Journal Article
Inadequacy in mental health care in low and middle income countries has been an important contributor to the rising global burden of disease. The treatment

Prolonged Internal Displacement and Common Mental Disorders in Sri Lanka: The COMRAID Study

  • Migration Research
  • Journal Article
Evidence is lacking on the mental health issues of internally displaced persons, particularly where displacement is prolonged. The COMRAID study was carried out in year

Prolonged Internal Displacement and Common Mental Disorders in Sri Lanka: The COMRAID Study

  • Disaster Management, Migration Research
  • Journal Article

Forced migration and mental health: prolonged internal displacement, return migration and resilience

  • Migration Research
  • Journal Article
Forced internal displacement has been rising steadily, mainly due to conflict. Many internally displaced people (IDP) experience prolonged displacement. Global research evidence suggests that many

Ethical challenges in mental health research among internally displaced people: ethical theory and research implementation

  • Bioethics, Common Mental Disorders, Disaster Management, Migration Research
  • Journal Article
Millions of people undergo displacement in the world. Internally displaced people (IDP) are especially vulnerable as they are not protected by special legislation in contrast