Renner Anna, Schmidt Viktoria, Kersting Anette
Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.
Front Psychiatry. 2024 Feb 16;15:1303847. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1303847. eCollection 2024.
Migration is often accompanied by interpersonal, material and abstract losses and can be associated with migratory grief. The correlates of migratory grief have not yet been sufficiently addressed in research. This review aims to systematically investigate the relationship between migratory grief and psychopathology, to map the current state of research on this highly relevant topic and to derive relevant implications for the target group.
A systematic literature search of electronic databases (PubMed/Medline, PsycINFO, Web of Science) was conducted up until January 2023. Primary empirical quantitative and qualitative studies with migrants were included that assessed the association between migratory grief and psychopathology, using a specific instrument for migratory grief (quantitative) or named migratory grief as relevant topic (qualitative). Studies that only captured aspects of migratory grief, were not written in English, or were descriptive/non-peer-reviewed publications, were excluded. A quality assessment of all studies included was performed using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool. The results were synthesized using a narrative synthesis approach.
All studies (quan. = 4; qual. = 1) were cross-sectional and used convenience samples. The studies had a mean number of 83 participants with a total of N = 487 participants included in the current review. All included studies reported a significant relationship between migratory grief and psychological distress.
Despite the quality of the included studies being limited, our results show that there is a link between migratory grief and depression among refugees and migrants. However, there are only few studies in this currently and certainly also in the future relevant field of research, which is why further studies on factors influencing migratory grief as well as associations with other disorders would be desirable.
https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/, identifier CRD42023403448.
移民往往伴随着人际、物质和抽象层面的损失，并可能与移民哀伤相关。移民哀伤的相关因素在研究中尚未得到充分探讨。本综述旨在系统地研究移民哀伤与精神病理学之间的关系，梳理这一高度相关主题的研究现状，并为目标群体得出相关启示。
截至2023年1月，对电子数据库（PubMed/Medline、PsycINFO、Web of Science）进行了系统的文献检索。纳入了针对移民的主要实证定量和定性研究，这些研究使用特定的移民哀伤量表（定量）或把移民哀伤作为相关主题（定性）来评估移民哀伤与精神病理学之间的关联。仅涉及移民哀伤部分内容、非英文撰写或为描述性/非同行评审出版物的研究被排除。使用混合方法评估工具对所有纳入研究进行质量评估。结果采用叙述性综合方法进行综合分析。
所有研究（定量研究 = 4；定性研究 = 1）均为横断面研究，且使用的是便利样本。这些研究的平均参与者数量为83人，本综述共纳入487名参与者。所有纳入研究均报告移民哀伤与心理困扰之间存在显著关系。
尽管纳入研究的质量有限，但我们的结果表明，难民和移民中的移民哀伤与抑郁之间存在联系。然而，在这个当前以及未来肯定都相关的研究领域中，研究数量很少，这就是为什么需要进一步研究影响移民哀伤的因素以及与其他疾病的关联。
