Department of Nursing, University of Minnesota School of Nursing, Minneapolis, Minnesota (Drs Hoffman, Peterson, Fulkerson, Fredkove, and Ms Davis).
University of Denver, Denver, Colorado (Dr Vukovich).
Fam Community Health. 2024;47(4):288-293. doi: 10.1097/FCH.0000000000000410. Epub 2024 Aug 15.
Adolescent youth occupy a critical and complex position in refugee families who resettle in a third country.
We examined the potential impact of health- and family-related factors on the social and behavioral adjustment outcomes of refugee adolescent youth.
Situated within an explanatory sequential mixed methods study, we used unadjusted and adjusted multinomial logistic regression to identify trauma, health, and socioecological characteristics of war-affected families associated with social and behavioral adjustment in 72 Karen adolescent youth resettled in the United States.
Factors related to the health and well-being of war-affected families, including parent mental and physical health, youth-reported family function, housing, and parent employment demonstrated important associations with youth adjustment.
These findings, originating within the complex dynamics of resettled war-affected families, demonstrated the interconnectedness of adolescent and parent experiences and opportunities to advance resilience in youth navigating integration and supporting their families through those same processes.
在重新安置到第三国的难民家庭中，青少年处于关键而复杂的地位。
我们研究了与健康和家庭相关的因素对难民青少年社会和行为调整结果的潜在影响。
在解释性顺序混合方法研究中，我们使用未经调整和调整后的多项逻辑回归来确定与社会和行为调整相关的受战争影响家庭的创伤、健康和社会生态特征，该研究涉及在美国重新安置的 72 名克伦族青少年。
与受战争影响家庭的健康和福祉相关的因素，包括父母的心理和身体健康、青少年报告的家庭功能、住房和父母就业，与青少年的调整有重要关联。
这些发现源自重新安置的受战争影响家庭的复杂动态，表明青少年和父母的经历以及在青少年通过这些相同的过程进行整合和支持他们的家庭时增强韧性的机会是相互关联的。
